Steve Davies

WASHINGTON, March 23, 2016 -Two new lines of genetically engineered (GE) corn will not be regulated, USDA0s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced today.

WASHINGTON, March 23, 2016 - EPA should 0proceed with the utmost caution0 in conducting risk assessments of neonicotinoid insecticides, Sen. James Inhofe, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said in a letter today to Jim Jones, the agency

The Grocery Manufacturers Association could be on the hook for as much as $33 million in fines if a judge in Washington state finds that it pintentionallyp hid the identity of donors to its anti-GMO labeling campaign in Washington state in 2013.

The National Academy of Sciences has provisionally appointed 13 members to a committee tasked with studying the changing scientific and regulatory landscape of biotechnology.

WASHINGTON, March 18, 2016 - Thirty-two Senate Democrats and Independent Bernie Sanders are calling for "full and mandatory funding for farm bill conservation programs."

USDA@s Food Safety and Inspection Service is asking for comments on a proposal to eliminate what it says are @redundant trichinae control requirements for pork and pork products.@

- Farm groups have joined dozens of states and landowners in a case now before the Supreme Court seeking to make wetlands determinations subject to judicial review.

Florida orange and grapefruit growers who have been battling the Asian citrus psyllid are getting some help, but it may be years before the stateðs citrus industry recovers from the damage wrought by the tiny pest.

A Government Accountability Office report released Friday suggests that USDA hasn`t been adequately monitoring declines in native bee populations.

Don`t burn those french fries. And keep those cookies light brown. Those are two messages from the Food and Drug Administration`s final guidance on how to reduce levels of acrylamide in food.