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Democrats will be campaigning on a platform that makes the party s most forceful case ever for taking major new steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

President Barack Obama signed the GMO disclosure bill into law on Friday, but many uncertainties remain on exactly how the USDA will implement it.The agriculture sector can be certain that the final rule will preempt any state labeling efforts that farmers feared would create a patchwork o

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2016 A federal appeals court will hear arguments for a second time on whether FDA should release detailed information on egg production in Texas. And this time around, the result could be different.

As the U.S. goes, so too does Japan sometimes, and that s why the new American GMO disclosure law has Japanese soybean oil producers worried. USDA is not expected to decide that foods containing soybean oil need to be labeled under the National Disclosure Standard for Bioen

If Donald Trump s path to victory in November goes through rural America, he ll likely to have to do better with white working class voters than Mitt Romney did. While that is clearly a key demographic for Trump, it s not yet clear he can get them to the polls in numbers to

- Fierce opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) at both national political conventions last month is the newest symptom of what a leading agricultural economist has called a tougher period of trade policy. The U.S. skepticism about trade liberalizat

USDA is in the process of finalizing a rule to amend animal welfare standards in organic agriculture, and they received a fresh to-do list last week from a pair of Capitol Hill letters.

Sen. Mike Crapo, a co-chair of the Senate Sweetener Caucus, is urging U.S. officials to work with the Mexican government to fix import agreements that the sugar industry says are broken, resulting in tons of subsidized sweetener being dumped into the U.S. market

The fact that stakeholders are upset about the conditions of the inland waterways system is nothing new. The fact that some of those same people have some reasons to be optimistic is a more recent development.