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Chemical giants Dow and DuPont have announced an all-stock merger that will create a new $130 billion company.

Key farm and industry stakeholders applauded the HousePs Thursday passage of a bill to reauthorize the Surface Transportation Board (STB) P the federal railroad regulatory agency.

An annual report from the Food and Drug Administration shows that sales and distribution of antibiotics for use in food animals is continuing an upward trend.

With chances for a year-end deal on GMO labeling all but gone, the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee said it would be a top priority early next year.

At a hearing of the House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management, a spectrum of witnesses representing different aspects of the cotton industry expressed concern about their current state of affairs.

The United Soybean Board will focus its efforts on nine new goals for the next several years, hoping to make improvements in supply, demand and marketplace value.

EPA has been ordered by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to respond by the end of 2016 to a petition seeking a total ban on uses of the insecticide chlorpyrifos.

USDAPs Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) said Thursday it will make $40 million in conservation funding available to farmers and ranchers operating within the greater sage grousePs 11-state range in the western U.S.

Three years after he was ousted from the House Agriculture Committee, Kansas Republican Tim Huelskamp landed a coveted spot on the panel that makes GOP committee assignments.

Canada and Mexico called on the Senate to eliminate the country-of-origin labeling law for meat, and Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts expressed confidence that a repeal measure would be included in a year-end spending bill.