Articles by Agri-Pulse staff

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has rescheduled a stakeholder meeting on live animal quarantine centers that was cancelled this week due to inclement weather. The day-long meeting will take place March 25 at APHIS headquarters in Riverdale, Md.

USDA sets stakeholder meetings about Farm Bill implementation

Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., introduced a bill today which would prohibit animal testing in the U.S. cosmetics industry and phase out the sale of cosmetics tested on animals in foreign countries.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced his leadership team for the committee.

USDA published a preliminary decision today that a soybean genetically engineered for insect resistance by Dow AgroSciences should be nonregulated.

ST. LOUIS (Feb. 27, 2014) – University of Wisconsin researcher Vince Davis estimates herbicide-resistant weeds cost U.S. farmers two

The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry will hold a hearing on March 6 to consider Timothy Massad’s nomination to serve as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

President Obama is expected to sign into law legislation (H.R. 2431) that would reauthorize the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) for five years.

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will provide close to $3 million in technical and financial assistance for interested farmers and ranchers to help improve the health of bees.

The Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed papers in federal district court in Honolulu to defend the County of Kaua‘i’s 2013 pesticide disclosure law.