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CropLife America has decided to part ways with President and CEO Chris Novak, who has headed the pesticide industry organization since August 2018.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat who was the longest serving female senator and a long-time advocate for ag labor reform, died at her home in Washington on Thursday evening.

The fiscal 2024 spending bill for USDA, FDA and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission failed 191-237 after 27 Republicans joined Democrats in opposing it.

The Natural Resources Conservation Service on Thursday added new activities to its list of practices that qualify for Inflation Reduction Act funding through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program in 2024. 

In what is being touted as the biggest ag technology deal in history, AGCO, a major ag and technology equipment company, announced Thursday a joint venture with Trimble‘s portfolio of agricultural assets and technologies.

Legislation is being introduced in the House and Senate to create a task force composed of officials with USDA and the U.S. Trade Representative's Office to identify agricultural trade barriers such as India’s farm subsidies that should be challenged at the World Trade Organization.

The Justice Department is seeking to shut down the operations of Agri Stats, alleging it has violated antitrust law by aggregating and sharing a wide range of pricing and other information with major chicken, pork and turkey companies.

Corteva is suing seed startup Inari for intellectual property theft, alleging in a lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday that Inari tweaked biotech traits in Corteva’s seeds and is now trying to obtain U.S. patents for them.