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For the first case of its new term, the Supreme Court tackled a question that pits the federal government against private landowners: Can areas not currently occupied by an endangered species be designated as critical habitat?

U.S. farm groups are cheering the last-minute deal struck Sunday night to keep Canada in the newly renamed North American trade pact with the U.S. and Mexico.

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U.S. and Canadian negotiators have reached an eleventh-hour agreement assuring Canada will be part of the renegotiated North American trade pact that is to be renamed the United States, Mexico, Canada Agreement. As part of the deal, Canada agreed to eliminate its controversial Class 7 dairy pricing program.

The strained farm bill negotiations have erupted in partisan bickering amid darkening prospects for reaching an agreement by the end of the year to replace the 2014 law, which expires Sunday, Sept. 30.

The most cost-effective strategy to reduce the amount of nitrogen and phosphorus flowing into the Gulf of Mexico would focus on improving practices in the Lower Mississippi sub-basin, a new Economic Research Service report says.

The Food and Drug Administration is moving forward with possible changes that could prevent plant-based products from using traditional dairy nomenclature.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed two orders today that settle charges against an introducing broker and two commodity trades for violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and Commission Regulations, including for attempted manipulation, fraud, and unauthorized trading.