Steve Davies

Texas sorghum growers will be allowed to use Dow AgroSciences` Transform WG to control sugarcane aphid on up to 3 million acres under an emergency exemption granted by EPA.

Millions of dollars left over from a class-action settlement involving black farmers will be available for distribution to law schools or nonprofit organizations, under an order issued today by U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman.

The Food and Drug Administration is extending the comment period on its proposal to allow an experimental release of gene-edited mosquitoes in Florida to combat the Zika virus. The new comment deadline is May 13.

Federal wildlife agencies will have to prepare detailed analyses on how three widely used pesticides affect endangered species, the Environmental Protection Agency has concluded.

The overwhelming scientific evidence shows that genetically modified food is safe, panelists who addressed the issue at a recent Washington, D.C., forum agreed.

Vehicle design and maintenance, temperature controls, training, and recordkeeping are key aspects of a new rule from the Food and Drug Administration addressing food transportation.

Farmers in 17 Western states will have to step up their efforts to conserve water in the coming decades, as temperatures rise and droughts and floods become more frequent, the Bureau of Reclamation says in a report.

Cotton and soybean growers will have a new herbicide at their disposal if an EPA proposal to approve dicamba on the genetically engineered versions of those crops is approved.

About half of the infant rice cereal on the market now would meet a new limit on inorganic arsenic proposed by the Food and Drug Administration.

Bayers Crop Science has requested a hearing before an EPA Administrative Law Judge to defend its registrations for flubendiamide (trade name: Belt).