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USDA is announcing a final rule today for strengthening enforcement of organic standards.

Industry analysts say consumers should not expect egg prices to return to lower levels due to the sustained impact of the highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak, which is proving worse than the one experienced in 2014-15.

California is drying out after an unprecedented series of winter storms brought weeks of rain, flooding, high winds and more.

Farmers across the central and southern Plains are drawing down the underground reserves they have long relied on to irrigate their corn, soybeans, cotton and wheat. A Kansas state agency wants to do something about the problem and is calling for that state to end a policy of "planned depletion.

Speakers at a recent White House listening session pleaded with the Biden administration to modernize U.S. regulatory oversight of gene-edited plant products to compete with other countries that have streamlined processes allowing for quicker approval.

Up until recently Mexico counted on the U.S. for nearly 100% of its rice imports, but that’s no longer the case. Countries like Brazil now find themselves at a price advantage to the once-dominant U.S. and they’re taking advantage of the situation at a rate that has the USA Rice Federation concerned that members are losing their largest and most reliable market.

Chinese officials have given their blessing to a handful of strains of alfalfa, canola and other crops, offering a sense of optimism that the wheels may be turning on the country’s notoriously slow approval process.

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is nearing the completion of a five-year pilot surveillance program to monitor antimicrobial resistance and will establish a permanent surveillance program.