Articles by Bill Tomson

Donald Trump, EPA WOTUS, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, Michael Fitzgerald, Non-GMO, genetically modified organism, Food Safety Inspection Service, Catfish insurance program, R-CALF USA, Charles Herbster, Amanda Renteria, Bill Bullard

From underwater fields to drowned cattle, the damage to Louisiana farmers and ranchers from the recent storms and continued flooding is extensive, but state officials say they are doing what they can to prevent losses.

The National Milk Producers Federation is asking USDA to spend between $100 million and $150 million to buy cheese off the market to help out dairy farmers who are suffering from record low prices, weak exports and strong domestic supplies.

Brazil@s Ministry of Agriculture, desperate to open up new feed supplies for the livestock industry, is asking the country@s biotech regulatory agency to temporarily lift restrictions on corn imports from the U.S.

USDA s Food Safety and Inspection Service has rejected another shipment of Vietnamese catfish because it tested positive for residues of banned chemicals, according to Food & Water Watch.

West Coast union dockworkers will vote next week on whether or not they�re willing to discuss an early extension of their contracts, a development that would be very welcomed by agriculture exporters.

South Korea has lifted its hold on stores of U.S. wheat after testing the grain for the presence of unapproved genetically modified organisms, U.S. government and industry officials said.

The U.S. Wheat Associates is hopeful there will be no business lost and only minor trade delays after a Washington state farmer found 22 unapproved genetically modified plants growing in a field last week, a USW spokesman said.

President Barack Obama signed the GMO disclosure bill into law on Friday, but many uncertainties remain on exactly how the USDA will implement it.The agriculture sector can be certain that the final rule will preempt any state labeling efforts that farmers feared would create a patchwork o

As the U.S. goes, so too does Japan sometimes, and that s why the new American GMO disclosure law has Japanese soybean oil producers worried. USDA is not expected to decide that foods containing soybean oil need to be labeled under the National Disclosure Standard for Bioen