Articles by Steve Davies

With the Agriculture Department expected to soon release its strategy for tackling climate change, the top Senate Ag Committee’s top Republican is doubling down on his opposition to a USDA-run carbon bank.

The Agriculture Department continues to insist that working lands will be included in the Biden administration’s goal of conserving 30% of the nation’s land and waters by 2030, as the administration prepares to flesh out some of the details of its 30x30 initiative.

The Natural Resources Conservation Service has agreed to improve its wetland enforcement by taking a risk-based instead of a random approach to its annual compliance check, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Tuesday.

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai met Monday with a diverse list of agricultural groups that all have a strong stake in the success of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

Five white farmers are claiming the $4 billion debt forgiveness program being implemented by USDA is unconstitutional, in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Wisconsin.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, with backing from former President Trump’s immigration adviser, Stephen Miller, alleges in a lawsuit that the new $4 billion debt relief plan for minority farmers unconstitutionally excludes white producers.

President Joe Biden today is proposing a $1.8 billion package of spending on child nutrition and other social needs that would be paid for in part by new taxes on inherited assets. The president’s plan promises to protect family-run farms from the new taxes as long as the farms stay in operation.

The ongoing legal and regulatory battles over the use of Roundup, one of the most widely-used crop protection products in U.S. history, is taking on some new twists.