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Last week, Canada and Mexico released mock-ups of retaliatory measures against the United States should the country fail to change its recently-announced country-of-origin labeling (COOL) rules. It was enough of a hint, National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) officials said during a teleconference

The G8 Science Ministers met in London on Wednesday as part of the UK’s G8 Presidency, where they focused on antibiotic resistance as a global danger.

President Obama today signed a ‘clean’ Animal Drug User Fee Act (ADUFA) reauthorization into law, after months of speculation that the legislation could serve as a vehicle for anti-antibiotics legislation

On the heels of Monday’s Senate farm bill passage, the House is now preparing to bring their own legislation to the floor.

A legal battle continues between Beef Products Inc. and ABC News, and the $1.2 billion lawsuit has been returned to state court.

In a briefing for House legislative staff today, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) criticized the crop insurance and shallow loss programs in the 2013 farm bills of both the Senate and House.

The United States, together with the other eight countries that make up the TPP the Trans-Pacific Partnership invited Mexico to join the negotiations of this initiative on Monday. Canada joined the “club” a day later. Japan is still a possibility.

U.S. and European Union officials are reportedly near a decision on whether to pursue a free trade agreement. An assessment of a possible FTA from trade officials on both sides of the Atlantic is expected later this month.

The European Commission’s agriculture and rural development directorate, the EU equivalent of a country’s agriculture ministry, has fired off an unusual rebuttal to a new U.S. industry-led group that hopes to put a brake on EU claims to exclusive use of many popular food names.

The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) suggests the emissions estimating methodologies (EEM) proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the development of lagoons and basins for swine and dairy feeding operations is not worth the paper it’s printed on.