Articles by Steve Davies

Food Safety and Inspection Service chief Al Almanza defended new poultry inspection rules before a skeptical House panel last week while describing a similar plan for hog slaughter facilities.

EPA is moving ahead with cancellation of the pesticide flubendiamide, which under the trade name Belt is registered for use on more than 200 crops, including soybeans and almonds.

The Agricultural Research Service did not violate USDA@s Scientific Integrity Policy (SIP), as asserted by an entomologist who has published papers on the risks of neonicotinoids to monarch butterflies, a USDA-assembled panel has found.

A wide array of farm and manufacturing groups have asked the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to revisit its decision to decide waters of the U.S. challenges in that court.

The Supreme Court has decided not to review a 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals opinion upholding an EPA plan to reduce nonpoint source pollution in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2016 -The $19 million the Food and Drug Administration is sending to states to help fruit and vegetable growers understand the agencyPs new produce safety rule is Pa good start,P Stephen Ostroff , whoPs been acting FDA commissioner s

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack acknowledged that cotton growers need help, but reaffirmed his position that the department is currently prohibited from designating cottonseed as an oilseed, which would allow growers to receive farm program payments.

The campaign to pass western water legislation got a boost Tuesday from Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., who announced he would offer a bill to accompany S. 2533, which was introduced Feb. 10 by his fellow Californian and Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals presented a laundry list of reasons why it should not decide the legal challenges to the Obama administration s WOTUS rule. But, in a decision released Monday, the panel said its hands were tied by precedent.

New guidance from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) seeks to streamline the process of extending nonregulated status to genetically engineered (GE) organisms and products derived from known plant pests, or regulated articles.