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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, December 27, 2024
Competition in the seed business is either robust or severely diminished, according to comments submitted to USDA that reflect a deep divide in the industry over the question of consolidation and raise concerns about access to traits developed through biotechnology.
The Supreme Court denied a petition from Monsanto Tuesday to review a federal appeals court ruling that found the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act does not preempt state tort-law claims.
The National Pork Producers Council and American Farm Bureau Federation got a boost in their Supreme Court challenge to California’s animal housing law, Proposition 12, with the U.S. government’s filing of a brief supporting the groups.
The Environmental Protection Agency must re-examine its finding that glyphosate is “not likely” to cause cancer in humans, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
“Not that I’m aware of.” House Agriculture Chairman David Scott says that answer from Tim Schellpeper, the CEO of meatpacking giant JBS USA, at a hearing in April is enough to justify setting up a special investigator’s office at USDA to look into meat industry practices.
Three widely used insecticides are “likely to adversely affect” the vast majority of threatened and endangered species, according to a new analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Late planting and high temperatures in the Midwest are raising concerns of dicamba damage to non-dicamba-tolerant soybeans and specialty crops as growers struggle to meet state and federal deadlines to apply the volatile herbicide.
