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The Food and Drug Administration is proposing to have growers of leafy greens and other fruits and vegetables conduct “comprehensive assessments” of pre-harvest agricultural water, replacing the current requirement in FDA's 2015 Produce Safety Rule for microbial water quality testing.

Representatives of the nation’s dairy producers say they’d like the chance to contribute to hearings that would take place under new legislation offered in the Senate.

Lawmakers worried that China could gain control over the U.S. food system through land purchases are looking to curb the nation's grip on American farmland, despite no evidence of a spike in land sales to Chinese interests, according to an Agri-Pulse analysis of Agriculture Department data.

Multinational food companies raced to set pledges to slash the carbon emissions in their supply chains, and now those firms are scrambling to recruit the farmers needed to meet those targets, even as it remains unclear who’s going to foot the bill.

Producers are breathing a sigh of relief after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration extended a waiver from its Hours of Service regulation to certain commercial truck drivers.

Even as some states and USDA invest millions of dollars in expanding medium and small-scale meat processing, a new economic analysis cautions against seeing this development as insulation against the next “black swan” event, which is how the researchers describe the pandemic.

The top Republicans on the House and Senate Ag committees are pleading with the Environmental Protection Agency to reverse its decision revoking all food tolerances for chlorpyrifos.

Seventy lawmakers are calling for the Biden administration to force Mexico to abide by the biotech provisions laid out in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

More than 60 House members are urging Labor Secretary Marty Walsh to prioritize applicants for Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act assistance who are seeking to become truck drivers.