Steve Davies

Syngenta Crop Protection has agreed to pay $1.2 million to resolve alleged violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, the Environmental Protection Agency said today.

Data reviewed by the Environmental Protection Agency on the safety of glyphosate fail to prove or even suggest the herbicide causes cancer in humans, according to an agency paper posted online in advance of a meeting of EPA scientific advisers next month. `The available data a

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2016 - The Senate voted 95-3 today to approve a bill that would finance waterway improvement projects in 30 states and improve drinking water delivery systems. The bill also includes a provision exempting some farmers with aboveground fuel storage tank

- The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe0s protest against the Dakota Access pipeline has received so much attention that President Obama, while on his recent Asia trip, was questioned about it by a Malaysian student at a press conference.

A committee examining how growers who use different farming systems can coexist expects to have a final report to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack by the end of October. But at its final meeting last week, Vilsack suggested that the committee has already performed an Pinvalua

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2016 - EPA violated the Freedom of Information Act by releasing personal information, including phone numbers and email addresses, of concentrated animal feeding operation owners, a federal appeals court ruled today.

A federal judge has cleared the way for a lawsuit challenging the way substances are removed from the list of those allowed in organic agriculture.

The European Food Safety Authority�s GMO panel has issued a clean bill of health to Syngenta�s genetically modified five-event stack in maize, finding no safety risk even if the grains were accidentally released into the environment.

Deere & Co. and Precision Planting LLC say they plan to fight the Justice Department`s attempt to block the farm equipment giant`s acquisition of Precision Planting on antitrust grounds.

The National Grain and Feed Association will be taking a close look at a Surface Transportation Board proposal to develop a new rail rate review process designed to make it easier for grain shippers to challenge unreasonable rates.