Steve Davies

China has imposed new 55% “safeguard” tariffs on beef imported over specific quotas from countries including the United States, Brazil and Australia, China's Ministry of Commerce announced Wednesday.

Beekeepers and producers of commodities including garlic, mushrooms and crawfish would get payments to compensate them for dumping of products from foreign competitors, under legislation introduced today in the Senate.

Food manufacturers and a host of trade groups are pushing for a national solution to food labeling as multiple states move toward requiring warning labels and fuller disclosure of ingredients.

The Office of the United States Trade Representative is reviewing whether workers at a Mondelēz confectionery plant in Mexico are being denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining.

The Trump administration is launching a $700 million initiative, potentially supplemented with corporate funding, to help farmers adopt regenerative agriculture practices.

Farmworker and grower groups are battling over the future of the H-2A program, as the Trump administration seeks to lower wages and provide relief to farmers who have complained for years about rising labor costs.

A paper purportedly demonstrating the safety of glyphosate that has historically been “a cornerstone in the assessment of glyphosate's safety” has been retracted, according to the co-editor of the journal in which it was published, Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology.

Groups representing different sectors of the cannabis industry are at odds over the recently passed hemp legislation that seeks to rein in purveyors of hemp-derived products containing THC, the cannabinoid that produces the high sought by consumers.

The Trump administration is backing Bayer’s bid for Supreme Court review of whether federal law pre-empts pesticide lawsuits filed in state courts.

The Trump administration's demands for state data to carry out its investigation of waste, fraud and abuse in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are meeting resistance both from Democratic-led states and from Democrats in Congress. State officials also are puzzled by estimates USDA has released.