Steve Davies

That didn’t last long. Just two weeks after Congress passed the debt ceiling agreement, the fiscal 2024 spending process is getting off to a rocky start.

The House Appropriations Committee today will take up a fiscal 2023 funding bill for USDA and FDA that was delayed during the negotiations over the debt ceiling.

EPA, farmers and Bayer are fighting in an Arizona federal court to keep the controversial herbicide dicamba on the market for over-the-top use.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres says he’s afraid Russia will pull out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative when it expires July 18.

House Republican leaders will try again this week to satisfy a group of conservatives that effectively blocked GOP bills from getting votes last week.

There’s one week left to submit comments to the House Agriculture Committee on what should – or shouldn’t – be in the next farm bill. So far, the committee has received nearly 1,400 submissions, according to staff.

Farm groups watching members of the House Freedom Caucus bring action to a halt in the House this week may be wondering what that portends for the farm bill.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow says there’s no new money to be had for the upcoming farm bill.

In an effort to reduce impacts to endangered species, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to roll out a strategy next month that will take what the agency says is a broad approach to reducing runoff and spray drift from herbicide applications, officials told an advisory group last week.

Anheuser-Busch has agreed to pay $537,000 in fines and “implement a comprehensive safety review of all 11 of its breweries that use anhydrous ammonia,” according to EPA.