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Supporters of Proposition 12 say states could lose the ability to regulate sales of products based on climate impacts and other concerns, if the Supreme Court strikes down the California law that prescribes sow-housing standards for pork sold in the state.

The Bureau of Reclamation has reached out to agriculture interests in the West as the agency considers how to spend the $4 billion earmarked in the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act for bolstering water-saving efforts in the Colorado River Basin and other drought-stricken areas.

A task force advising the upcoming White House hunger conference issued recommendations Tuesday that call on the government to require nutrition labeling on the front of food packages, ease SNAP eligibility rules and make school meals free to all students regardless of income.

Scientists are reporting some major success in sharply boosting crop yields by engineering plants to be more efficient at photosynthesis - their process of turning light into food.

In a breakthrough for ag research, researchers have shown that soybeans can be transgenically altered to increase the efficiency of photosynthesis and significantly boost crop yields.

The three Ukrainian ports in Odesa are ramping up grain exports now that they are free to ship, and the U.S. Agency for International Development is funding some of that new activity.

A federal indictment unsealed on Tuesday shows TJ Cox, a California Democrat whose one term in Congress included time on the House Agriculture Committee, is facing 28 counts of fraud.

Bayer says it will continue to provide “essential healthcare and agriculture products” to Russia because to withhold them “would only multiply the war’s ongoing toll on human life.”

Biofuel industry groups are welcoming passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the historic package of nearly $370 billion in climate-related funding.