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Cargill filed a lawsuit today against Syngenta Seeds seeking damages from Syngenta for commercializing its Agrisure Viptera (MIR 162) corn seed before the product obtained import approval from China.

The advocacy group Food & Water Watch (FWW) has filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop the implementation of new poultry inspection rules that would allow poultry companies to take over some inspection functions currently assigned to USDA.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) picked 9/11 to launch the first strike. On Thursday, API announced a TV, radio, print and online advertising campaign to deliver its charge that the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has “raised prices on food and fuel.”

Rail availability continues to be a hot topic on Capitol Hill as the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee held a two-paneled hearing Wednesday to look at the issue.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11, 2014 – Discussion of a continuing resolution (CR) to prevent another government shutdown will be delayed until next week as members of Congress gather more information about potential U.S. military actions in Iraq and Syria.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2014 – House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers today introduced what he described as a “clean” short-term Continuing Resolution

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow was presented today with the World Food Program USA’s McGovern-Dole Leadership Award – its highest honor -- for her efforts in fighting global hunger.

Bees contribute an estimated $16 billion annually in added value to more than 30 percent of the crops we produce, and reports of colony losses in the United States are of great concern to anyone who cares about agriculture and food security

The U.S. Trade Representative’s Office (USTR) says negotiators made “important progress” on a range of issues during 10 days of Trans-Pacific Partnership talks in Hanoi, but apparently the contentious issue of market access wasn’t among them.

The EPA should broaden its decision-making approach from its traditional emphasis on reducing emissions and waste releases from individual point sources to “consider life-cycle effects of business processes along the entire ‘value chain’ of a product’s development, including raw material extraction