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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2017 - A plan that the Obama administration developed to reform USDA’s biotechnology regulatory process could wind up stifling innovation instead of making it easier...
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2017 - No single factor is behind the decline in honey bee health, a leading researcher said at presentations in Washington, D.C., Monday, the start of the officially designated National Pollinator Week.
NORTH DAKOTA, June 21, 2017 - In mid-June on the Northern Plains, spring crops have usually rounded first base, the season’s first cutting of hay is being baled or stacked, and cattle are browsing in knee-deep forage.
WISCONSIN, June 21, 2017 - A federal judge in Wisconsin has ordered international dairy conglomerate Arla Foods to halt its new $30 million ‘Live Unprocessed’ ad campaign.
EUROPE, June 21, 2017 - Food companies that sell products labelled “soya milk” or “tofu butter” in the EU must rebrand their items or face potential legal action,
WASHINGTON, June 19, 2017 – Scientists say they are gaining a new understanding of why corn – or maize as it is widely known outside the U.S. – and not some other plant, is the most productive and widely grown crop in the world, after deciphering a new, much more detailed reference genome for the plant.
WASHINGTON, June 18, 2017 - President Trump heads to Iowa this week to showcase precision agriculture and its benefits to the rural economy, and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue will host his Mexican and Canadian counterparts in Georgia.
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2017 - President Trump is nominating Gregg Doud, the president of the Commodity Markets Council, to be the administration’s chief agricultural negotiator under the U.S. Trade Representative.
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