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The Justice Department will no longer defend some farm program benefits targeted to “socially disadvantaged” producers, Solicitor General John Sauer says in a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson.

A federal grand jury has indicted several Chinese nationals on charges related to stealing and re-selling used cooking oil across several U.S. states. The alleged theft underscores the need for stronger measures to protect waste feedstocks that have become increasingly valuable in the making of biodiesel and other lower-emitting fuels, the North American Renderers Association said. 

President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order to create two task forces to investigate whether anti-competitive behavior like price fixing in food supply chains is contributing to higher costs.

A marathon three-day hearing on the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement kicks off today, with testimony from agricultural groups.  

The International Agency for Research on Cancer’s classification of commonly used weedkiller atrazine as “probably carcinogenic to humans” prompted a quick response from the herbicide’s supporters and critics.