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WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2017 - Harvey is still wreaking havoc after slamming into the Texas coast Friday as a Category 4 hurricane with deadly 135 mph winds. Now a tropical storm, Harvey continues to drop massive amounts of rain – in some areas more than 4 feet has fallen – on vulnerable livestock and unharvested crops, while blowing cotton modules off farms.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2017 – Considering the problems farmers and applicators – and manufacturers – are experiencing with dicamba this year, one could reasonably wonder whether it makes sense to bet on its future in agriculture. But Dow AgroSciences is making that wager.

WASHINGTON, August 30, 2017 - Experts from a wide range of academic disciplines have launched an ambitious search for the most probable breakthroughs in agricultural research that could produce dividends for humankind over the next dozen years.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2017 -- President Trump's latest threat to pull the U.S. out of NAFTA is causing some jitters in the U.S. ag sector. But are they real or just a negotiating ploy?