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BASF and Louis Dreyfus Company jointly announced Tuesday the sale of BASF’s food and health performance ingredients business to LDC. 

EPA is considering comments expressing a wide diversity of opinion on whether to approve labels for three dicamba herbicides for use in 2026, setting up a potential third round of litigation over the controversial crop protection chemical.

Yara and BASF are ending their joint project to build a blue ammonia production plant on the U.S Gulf coast. 

The American Soybean Association hired Mariah Wollweber as senior director of marketing and communications. Justin Ransom was appointed administrator of the Food Safety Inspection Service. The Keystone Policy Center hired USDA alumnus Alyssa Charney as senior director of the agricultural technical assistance program. 

The National Wheat Foundation appointed Anne Osborne as the next executive director. Peter Laudeman joined USDA as a senior policy adviser for trade and foreign agricultural affairs. The U.S. Wheat Associates hired Julia Debes as director of communications and stakeholder outreach.

The California Avocado Commission announced that manufacturer Loveland Products agreed to support the SLN registration and DPR quickly approved the much-needed resource.

House Ag Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson and his counterpart on House Natural Resources, Bruce Westerman, headlined an ag-focused fundraiser for Donald Trump at the Capitol Hill Club Monday evening.

EPA will allow growers to use formerly registered dicamba formulations on cotton and soybeans this growing season, after hearing from numerous farm groups worried that last week's court decision vacating the registrations would cut off access to the herbicide.