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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, January 25, 2025
A panel of experts assembled at MonsantoÀs request is challenging a determination by a research arm of the World Health Organization that glyphosate probably causes cancer in humans.
A Tuesday night debate among the Republican candidates vying for the highest office in the land dealt primarily with issues of national security, leaving agricultural and trade topics out of the discussion.
The USDA issued its long-anticipated final rule guiding eligibility for farm program payments, which the agency said is Àconsistent with the direction and authority provided by Congress in the 2014 farm bill.À But in the process, the final rule generated a backlash from t
Sally Jewell, head of the Department of the Interior (DOI), announced Tuesday that her team will create a Natural Resources Investment Center aimed at providing conservation resources and information to private, academic, federal, state, and other partners to help s
EPA violated restrictions on using appropriations for grassroots lobbying when it employed social media to promote the proposed Clean Water Rule, the Government Accountability Office said in a legal opinion.
The fate of the country-of-origin labeling law for meat is hanging on a massive spending bill that could be released on Monday, and the food industry has been clinging to hopes that a measure preempting state GMO labeling laws also could be included.
The seed industry is scrambling to head off an effort by a small Mississippi company to use a year-end spending bill to renew its expired, patent-like protection for a variety of ryegrass. Officials with the American Seed Trade Association say extension of plant variety protection
USDAPs Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced today that as of Jan. 1, it will require developers of genetically engineered wheat varieties to apply for permits before conducting field trials.
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