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Syngenta has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that its commercialization of genetically modified corn seed caused China to reject U.S. corn imports for about a year starting in November 2013.

The Department of Agriculture is taking final steps to withdraw the organic animal welfare rule, setting an effective date for the regulation’s formal repeal.

House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway looks to quell a Democratic revolt over his draft farm bill, just a week before his panel’s planned votes on it, while ethanol producers step up their efforts to head off a cap sought by refiners on the prices of biofuel credits.

Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee are rebelling against Chairman Mike Conaway’s draft farm bill over provisions that would tighten work requirements on able-bodied adults who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The next meeting in the debate over the future of biofuels policy set for Monday morning has been called off, sources tell Agri-Pulse.

A bill that would exempt animal feeding operations from reporting their air emissions should be able to move through the Senate quickly, given its bipartisan support and a looming deadline from a federal appeals court.

President Donald Trump’s plan to slap steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports isn’t just a way to prop up domestic producers – his ag secretary says it’s also leverage he’s going to use to get Canada and Mexico to agree to U.S. demands in the ongoing negotiations to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The lineup of All-Star speakers for the Agri-Pulse Ag & Food Policy Summit continues to grow.

The USDA left its production estimates for this year’s corn and soybean crops unchanged from the February forecasts, while raising its projection for U.S. corn-ethanol output and slashing its outlook for Argentina’s soybean harvest.