A new wave of grocery aisle GM crops with clear-cut benefits to consumers may succeed in diminishing the volume of rhetoric from the Frankenfood cult....More
Brazil's recent notification to the WTO of agricultural subsidies for the 2009/10 crop year has raised issues about Brazil’s positions on trade-distorting domestic support policies....More
The Conservation Stewardship Program will provide nearly $175 million in funding for up to 12.6 million additional acres of enrollment this year....More
The EPA says there are multiple factors playing a role in honey bee colony declines, including parasites and disease, genetics, poor nutrition and pesticide exposure....More
After reps of the 27 EU states failed for the second time to reach an agreement on a proposal to ban neonicotinoids, the EC has enacted a two-year ban....More
Environmental activist groups did not prove the EPA awarded federal registrations for a host of crop protection chemicals that put endangered species at risk in a lawsuit they filed in 2011....More
Poultry farmer Lois Alt has challenged an EPA order demanding that she obtain a Clean Water Act discharge permit for ordinary stormwater runoff from her farmyard....More
On April 24, USDA designated California’s Madera County as a primary natural disaster area due to damages and losses caused by the recent drought....More
The issues at hand are fairly narrow – do the rules put Canadian and Mexican live animals at a competitive disadvantage and do the labels provide adequate information to consumers?...More
The EPA’s senior agricultural counsel said clean energy and building bridges with the farming/ranching community will be priorities going forward....More
According to EPA analysis, more than half of the nation's rivers and streams are in poor biological condition and are under "significant stress."...More