Steve Davies

A coalition including unions and nonprofits is challenging the Agriculture Department’s reorganization of agencies including the Food and Nutrition Administration and Agricultural Research Service, citing the department's own plan to allege that the reorganization is specifically designed to reduce personnel.

USDA unveiled a new $500 million grant program Wednesday to boost domestic manufacturing of fertilizer that will be focused on projects that are “shovel-ready.”

Monsanto says last week’s Supreme Court decision limiting the types of claims plaintiffs can make in state courts should, along with a proposed class action addressing Roundup cases, substantially limit litigation over its popular weed killer.

President Donald Trump suspended duties on Moroccan phosphate Monday night through an executive order, prompting cheers from farm groups.

A new executive order signed by President Donald Trump seeks to promote precision ag techniques and expedite approval of new pesticide active ingredients. Trump signed the order shortly before hosting farmers for dinner at the White House Rose Garden. 

The Supreme Court gave Monsanto and parent company Bayer a huge win Thursday, ruling that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act preempts certain lawsuits brought under state tort law.

Only nine states had payment error rates in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program below 6% in fiscal 2025, USDA has announced, which would allow them to avoid paying a portion of SNAP benefits starting in October 2027. Another six, as well as the District of Columbia, were above a higher threshold that gives them a two-year delay.

Former officials at USDA who dealt with New World screwworm as it advanced closer to the U.S. push back against criticism of the Biden administration's efforts leveled by Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins. 

The Agriculture Department plans to relocate “much of” the Foreign Agricultural Service’s Washington D.C.-based workforce to Kansas City, Missouri, and Beltsville, Maryland, as part of its reorganization plan, the agency announced Wednesday.

The European Union has adopted a regulation allowing streamlined approvals for gene-edited plants — a development that seed and biotech companies are lauding as a breakthrough on a continent known for its strict oversight of agricultural production.