Steve Davies

CropLife America has decided to part ways with President and CEO Chris Novak, who has headed the pesticide industry organization since August 2018.

The Justice Department is seeking to shut down the operations of Agri Stats, alleging it has violated antitrust law by aggregating and sharing a wide range of pricing and other information with major chicken, pork and turkey companies.

Corteva is suing seed startup Inari for intellectual property theft, alleging in a lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday that Inari tweaked biotech traits in Corteva’s seeds and is now trying to obtain U.S. patents for them.

House Republicans remain unable to agree on a continuing resolution to keep the government funded in October. Meanwhile, senators left town Thursday still unable to get agreement on bringing up a three-bill spending package that includes its version of the USDA-FDA bill.