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The Trump administration dispatched two of its top trade officials to meet with farm groups last week and the message was straightforward: The trade war that has generated tens of billions of dollars in tariffs on U.S. farm commodities isn’t likely to be over soon, and the ag sector needs to prepare for a lot more pain.

The health of the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States, is steadily improving, a strong indication that the six-state-plus-Washington, D.C. effort known as the Chesapeake Bay TMDL is working to reduce pollutants in the Bay watershed.

An anatomical assessment from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb could be the beginning of welcome news for the dairy industry about product labeling.

The biannual attempt by Republican lawmakers to rewrite the Endangered Species Act is in full swing, exemplified by a Senate hearing Tuesday on draft legislation that would give states a greater say in how the law is implemented.

All voices on USDA’s looming bioengineering label rules call for clear, honest disclosure but debate just what that means.

New technologies allow people in even the most remote areas to do business on a global scale, but only if they have broadband connectivity.

A Farm Foundation panel agrees that the science of gene editing has arrived, and now the challenge is acceptance.