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The Food and Drug Administration, facing increased criticism of its regulatory process for gene-edited animals, is mounting a new effort to defend its policies to farmers, researchers and developers, but the industry is backing the Agriculture Department's push to take over some of FDA's oversight role.

A Trump administration plan to reduce the amount of fruit and some vegetables such as carrots that schools must serve to kids has alarmed nutrition advocates, many lawmakers and two former agriculture secretaries.

The Humane Society of the U.S. and other groups are suing USDA over its 2018 rule allowing chicken processing plants to increase their line speeds to a rate of 175 birds per minute.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has floated the possibility of USDA and the Food and Drug Administration splitting regulatory responsibilities over gene-edited animals.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue calls for cutting agriculture's environmental footprint in half by 2050, and also endorses carbon pricing to encourage farmers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Last year, about 19.1 million acres were covered under prevented planting provisions in insurance policies and the indemnity payments have already reached almost $4.3 billion.

As discussions and debates over climate change legislation and policy heat up in Congress and in the federal government, nearly two dozen major farm groups announced a coalition today to ensure the views of U.S. agriculture are well represented.

Dean Foods Co. has reached an agreement to sell much of its business operations to Dairy Farmers of America for $425 million, pending approval by a federal bankruptcy court and the Justice Department.

Following a $15 million award for compensatory damages, a federal jury has awarded a Missouri peach farm $250 million in punitive damages in its dicamba drift case against Bayer and BASF.

A proposed U.S.-Kenya pact is expected to create new markets for U.S. farm commodities and equipment and promises to pave the way for new trade standards across sub-Saharan Africa.