Articles by Steve Davies

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.

Beef prices fell but energy prices rose, helping lead to a 0.5% rise in inflation in May and a 4.2% 12-month increase that is the largest jump in three years.

USDA and blue states aren’t giving an inch in their continuing battle over SNAP data, as Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins continues to blast the program as rife with fraud, waste and abuse. The fight over SNAP was highlighted at a recent House Agriculture Committee hearing where Ranking Member Angie Craig, D-Minn., harshly criticized Rollins over SNAP.

USDA has confirmed two more cases of New World screwworm in Texas and another in a dog in New Mexico, bringing to five the number of detections since the first two cases were announced last week.

Union members at USDA’s Food and Nutrition Administration – formerly the Food and Nutrition Service, or FNS – are pushing back against criticism by the Ag Department’s deputy secretary that their demands during relocation negotiations are unreasonable.

A possible case of New world screwworm may have been found in South Texas, but still needs to be confirmed through testing, according to the Agriculture Department. 

Agricultural industry leaders are sounding the alarm over delays at the EPA in getting dozens of applications approved for new active ingredients and new uses for already registered pesticides.

Specialty crop growers can apply soon for financial assistance under a $1.625 billion program announced by the Agriculture Department Friday.

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission tells farmers who have long been critical of crop nutrient price swings that the FTC has launched a major investigation into U.S. fertilizer pricing practices,