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The San Francisco-based Pollinator Partnership announced Friday that it has created three new categories for closer engagement with participants in its Bee Friendly Farming program.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture has awarded $1 million in funding to the Community Alliance with Family Farmers to support a project testing pheromone mating disruption and biological control programs to be used on a number of walnut pests.

Commodity, nutrition and health groups are gearing up for the last stretch of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, using public campaigns and scientific evidence in an attempt to shape the final product in a way that suits their members.

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., and ranking member Michael Conaway, R-Texas, are asking USDA to analyze the beef packing sector and trends in cattle markets related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A group of scientists with the USDA Agricultural Research Service released the first complete genome of the Asian giant hornet on Thursday.

USDA will extend the sign-up deadline for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), add additional commodities to the list of those eligible for aid and correct some payment rates.

CDFA announced Monday that it has awarded more than $544,000 to control tomato pest T. absoluta and fund other pest research.

A new bill would ban two widely used classes of pesticides and allow citizens to petition the Environmental Protection Agency for designations of pesticides as “dangerous,” which could lead to suspension of their registrations.

USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service is proposing a rule to strengthen oversight and enforcement of the organic supply chain, particularly imports.

The size of the average dairy farm is growing as consolidation drives greater concentration of production across many different regions with prominent dairy production.