Articles by Sarah Gonzalez

USDA is funding a multi-institutional grant project to develop a national clearinghouse for a standardized farm safety and health curriculum for young workers, after the Labor Department last year withdrew a set of proposed regulations amid heavy criticism.

Less than 30 days after President Obama’s ink started to dry after signing the 2014 Agricultural Act, farm organizations and land grant universities are already rolling out some key decision making tools to help farmers and landowners understand their new options. And there are plenty.

Now that USDA officials are promising that new livestock disaster aid will be among the first new farm bill programs out of the shoot, ranchers are rushing to decode the language laying out the programs in the new Farm Bill to see how it differs from the aid available in the 2008.

With concerns about “big data” percolating across the countryside, a group of agribusinesses announced a plan to develop technical standards for formatting and sharing data collected through precision farming.

USDA researchers are testing larger breeds of “livestock protection dogs” to help farmers and ranchers in Western states cope with the rising number of wolves and other large predators.

The Animal Health Institute (AHI) and the Generic Animal Drug Alliance (GADA), the major representatives of the animal health industry, officially committed this week to FDA’s newest voluntary guidelines on antibiotics use.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today posted their proposed definition for waters of the U.S. protected under the Clean Water Act (CWA) in the Federal Register, triggering a 90 day public comment period.

Agricultural operations and agri-businesses hoping to leverage the use drones need to brand these so-called Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) before skeptics of the technology do it for them, former U.S. Grains Council CEO Thomas Dorr said Tuesday during an event at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Wash

USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS) Administrator Kevin Shea said the agency on March 11 will begin implementing and testing its new Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) program.

The campaigns to label foods that contain genetically modified ingredients are driven by a movement that relies on emotional sentiments, said Julie Borlaug, the assistant director of partnerships at the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture, during the 2014 Bayer Ag Issues Forum in