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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Four lawsuits have been filed in California state courts on behalf of families who claim repeated exposure to the insecticide chlorpyrifos left their children with lasting neurological damage.
Democratic presidential candidates are trying to make agribusiness consolidation into a campaign issue, and some Republicans as well as farmers also worry that recent mergers are increasingly making it harder for growers to make a profit.
The Trump administration’s approach to mergers and acquisitions in the agriculture-related industries appears to follow the antitrust enforcement policies of previous administrations, in the view of a former Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust lawyer.
Historically, farmers and ranchers have looked to USDA and their universities to develop the “next big thing” in plant and animal breeding, but exciting new players are emerging.
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2017 - Dow AgroSciences has paid Bayer CropScience $469.4 million to resolve a patent dispute over a gene conferring glufosinate resistance.
WASHINGTON, May 24, 2017 - A recently announced agreement between the U.S. and China for beef is hailed as a win, but genetically modified seeds are also on the mind of U.S. companies.
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2017 - The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce regulatory burdens related to pesticides was the subject of a contentious hearing last week at the semiannual meeting of EPA’s Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee.
