Articles by Steve Davies

Funding for a nationwide initiative to feed kids during the summer and cuts to the crop insurance program are included in President Barack Obamas proposed fiscal 2017 budget, released today.

Bayer's Crop Science division is rejecting EPA's request that it voluntarily cancel uses of flubendiamide (trade name: Belt), an insecticide used on more than 200 crops nationwide.

There is no good reason for the Supreme Court to review  and possibly reverse  an appeals court decision that upheld an ambitious plan to restore the Chesapeake Bay to health.

The state officials who work most closely with farmers need to make their voices heard by federal regulators, industry leaders said Monday during a panel discussion at the kickoff of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture meeting in Washington.

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will prepare a programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to evaluate a range of alternatives for updating its biotechnology regulations.

Slightly more than half of the nations dairy farms have signed up for the second year of a program that provides a financial safety net for milk producers.

The Ninth Circuit wont suspend the registration of Dow AgroSciences Enlist Duo herbicide. EPA will have to make the decision after additional review. The federal appeals court in San Francisco denied the EPAs request for voluntary vacatur of the herbi

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and EPA need to tighten their standards for ammonium nitrate, the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) said in its report on the explosion of a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, which obliterated the facility, killed 15 people and cau

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman took to the telephone on Tuesday afternoon to tout the benefits of the Trans-Pacific Partnership as summarized in a recent report from the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). Later, Froman announced a deal that

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2016 - Six senators have asked the Grocery Manufacturers Association to explain how shoppers without smartphones will be able to use the so-called SmartLabel initiative GMA has proposed to get information about the food theypre buying.