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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2017 – USDA chief Sonny Perdue is in China primarily to celebrate the resumption of beef trade, but he’s also using the occasion to press officials there on the country’s need to reform its biotech approval process and to lift its bans on U.S. rice and poultry.
BASEL, SWITZERLAND, June 27 – Now that the acquisition is complete, leaders of both Syngenta and its new parent company, ChemChina, have a plan to make important changes as they advance their joint strategies. But they’ll also work on keeping quite a few things the same.
WASHINGTON, March 9, 2017 – Federal agencies that regulate biotechnology may not have the staffing and expertise to handle the plethora of new products expected over the next five to 10 years, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
March 1, 2017 - For the past couple of years the supply of sugar from beets has been rising while prices have dropped, expanding a rift between beet and cane sugar producers and spurring government and industry analysts to consider whether USDA can continue treating the two commodities as one.
January 24, 2017 - Activity in the hallways of USDA’s D.C. headquarters is still muted, but Trump administration officials are starting to fill up the political-appointee offices. New faces in the communications department, Rural Development and other agencies are beginning to filter in.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2017 - As he leaves office, President Obama’s administration is releasing a series of proposals to update and streamline the regulation of genetically engineered crops and animals.
