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While many farmers and ranchers have been successful in reducing their carbon footprint, making significant new progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions will require government assistance and new financial incentives, especially now that farmers are struggling to cope with depressed commodity prices, senators were told Tuesday.

EPA appears to be going it alone when it comes to tackling the thorny issue of how to protect endangered species from pesticide applications.

An effort to overhaul immigration laws got off to a rocky start on Capitol Hill when the White House plan developed by Jared Kushner met with a decidedly cool reception in the Senate.

Beef checkoff dollars should not be used automatically to support private speech funded by state beef councils, the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America argued in a brief filed in federal court in Montana Monday.

One example of collateral damage from the Trump administration’s escalating trade battle with China is dairy exports.

“Hunger is an issue affecting too many Californians,” according to a resolution passed this week by the state Senate. Citrus Stride Day addresses this challenge by donating to food banks 1,000 pounds of citrus for every lawmaker who participates in the one-mile walk around the capitol.

Bayer is not backing down from its defense of glyphosate following a jury’s award of more than $2 billion to a California couple who allege their use of Roundup over about 30 years caused their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.