USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will announce in a Federal Register notice today its assessment that adopting one or more of the five designated phytosanitary measures would make certain Chinese produce safe for import.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has reopened the comment period until April 30 on a 2017 proposal to use a protein found in spinach to combat citrus greening disease.

Producers in the Southern U.S. hope a new 2018 farm bill pilot program will help reduce feral swine populations, which cause an estimated $1.5 billion in damage every year in over 30 states.

USDA is intensifying efforts to keep African Swine Fever out of the U.S. and educate the public about the devastating virus that’s plaguing China’s pork producers.

Recombinetics and European researchers have joined forces to build herd resilience to bovine tuberculosis, and may help human TB resistance along the way.

A nondescript press release could prove to be a starting point for transformational change in how beef cattle are tracked through the United States, or it could serve as another instance where the status quo proved too difficult to change.