Articles by Steve Davies

The latest challenge to California’s Proposition 12, the 2018 law that requires sows have enough space to stand up and turn around, has been dismissed.

With the COVID-19 outbreak, ag research supporters say there is a need to keep researchers hard at work now more than ever.

Top lawmakers say Congress is looking at providing more money for payments to farmers to offset losses from the coronavirus pandemic.

Meat and poultry plants continue to close because of COVID-19 as fears grow of possible shortages.

Meat and poultry plants should implement social distancing and “consider the appropriate role for testing and workplace contact tracing” in helping to control COVID-19 at their facilities, according to new guidance issued by federal agencies.

Pressure is mounting on USDA not to limit the payments that individual producers can get through the Trump administration’s COVID-19 relief package. According to information released by a key senator, USDA has been planning to cap the payments at $125,000 per commodity per individual farmer or $250,000 for all commodities.

Thirteen members of the United Food and Commercial Workers International union who work in meatpacking or food processing have died after contracting COVID-19, UFCW said on a media call today to press for personal protective equipment and testing.

In an important decision for agriculture, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Clean Water Act permits may be required when pollutants make their way through groundwater into a lake, river or other navigable water.

A fresh round of COVID-19 relief should be available to small businesses and farms very soon. The House is set today to clear legislation that will add $321 billion to the Paycheck Protection Program, which has been out of money for a week.

A fresh round of assistance from the Small Business Administration should soon be available to farmers.