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California, the nationðs biggest agricultural state, is also tops ð by a long shot ð when it comes to farmers selling their products through direct marketing practices.

The FDA is amending a regulation to allow more fruits and vegetables to carry a health claim that they reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.

Several activist groups failed this week in a legal action to ban the USDA from inspecting and allowing foie gras to be sold on the commercial market.

Genetically modified crops may not be popular among certain aspects of the population, but those responsible for their growth see the technology as an essential tool.

USDA has finalized a long-awaited rule that it says will protect a host of pork and poultry producers, but industry groups are crying foul.

USDA`s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) wants food manufacturers and retailers to use a `Best if Used by` date label on their products instead of frequently used phrases such as `Sell-by` and `Use-by` as a way of reducing food waste.

A federal court is giving the National Cattlemen`s Beef Association until mid-February to complete a review of documents from a USDA audit of the beef checkoff, in connection with a lawsuit challenging NCBA`s role in how checkoff money is spent.

The Senate closed out the 114th Congress in the wee hours of last Saturday, passing a water projects bill, the last of a series of legislative achievements that will have far-reaching implications for agriculture. Topping the list was the GMO disclosure legislation approved last su

Seven months after its release, the report by the National Academy of Sciences on `Genetically Engineered Crops: Experiences and Prospects,` has failed to narrow the divide between the consensus of scientists and evidence-based analysts that biotech crops are safe and the m

- Farmers who use different growing systems to produce different products received some guidance on how to coexist ` along with a primer on the difficulty of finding common ground ` with the release of a final report by the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agricultu