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USDA this week unveiled a three-year $328 million restoration strategy to improve water quality and help coastal ecosystems damaged by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Export-Import Bank, Continuing Resolution, Child Nutrition Bill, Doug McKalip, Agricultural Marketing Service, GMO Disclosure, Pat Roberts, Cage-Free Definition, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Congressman Tim Waltz, USDA

- Long-time carbon-pricing advocate Bill McKibben insists that putting a steadily increasing price on carbon emissions is essential but wont be enough to avoid the worst consequences of global warming

Executives of five seed and agrichemical giants undergoing mergers sought to assure skeptical members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that the new companies will accelerate innovation in biotechnology, not slow it down.

Should seeds coated with neonicotinoids be regulated as pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)?

The rusty patched bumble bee is one step closer to becoming the first bee in the continental United States to be protected under the Endangered Species Act.

A White House plan for updating federal regulation of agricultural biotechnology calls for the FDA and EPA to clarify how they will treat products of gene editing. The 19-page plan also says that federal agencies are working to better coordinate in the regulation of genetically engineered

The ailing financial situation for many of Americaðs farmers will be getting special attention at the next USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum, an annual gathering that attracts representatives of the agriculture sector from around the world every February for two days in Arlington, Virgi

A proposed rule that sounds like a simple formalization of an informal policy has ag law experts scratching their well-educated heads In July, USDAðs Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) published a proposed rule dealing with shifting checkoff funds from the state to the natio

Farmworker wages are rising amid a steady decline in illegal immigration from Mexico and a tightening labor supply for growers. The number of undocumented immigrants from Mexico who are living in the United States peaked at 6.9 million a decade ago and has dropped to 5.6 million, t