Articles by Steve Davies

WASHINGTON, July 6, 2017 - A proposal to release genetically engineered diamondback moths in cabbage fields in upstate New York has received a green light from USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

WASHINGTON, June 29, 2017 - The Senate Agriculture Committee has approved a bill to reauthorize the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act, which requires companies to pay fees to help fund registration applications and reviews conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency.

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2017 - The House Appropriations Committee’s agriculture and energy subcommittees approved bills today that reject most of the cuts sought by President Trump.

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2017 - The Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers have acted officially to rescind the “waters of the U.S.,” or WOTUS, rule,

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2017 - It was Thursday, June 22, in the Syngenta Viptera trial. The lawyers for the Kansas growers and Syngenta had finished delivering closing arguments and the jury had received instructions from the judge for how it should arrive at a verdict. But the jury needed one more thing. In a note to the judge, they asked, “Can we have a calculator”?

WASHINGTON, June 23, 2017 - The Arkansas State Plant Board voted today to recommend an emergency ban on in-crop dicamba use, as grower complaints of drift damage continued to swell.

WASHINGTON, June 23, 2017 - A Kansas jury has awarded $217.7 million in damages to more than 7,000 corn growers in the state after finding that Syngenta was negligent in marketing corn to U.S. farmers that was rejected by China in 2013.