Category Archives: Agriculture News

The House Agriculture Committee approval of the GMO labeling standard now goes to the full House. With their action, this is the first time that a committee has taken action on the Safe and Affordable...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have confirmed detection of the citrus disease known as huanglongbing (HLB), or citrus g...

Drovers Cattle Network reports several livestock groups are calling for a stockpile of foot and mouth disease vaccines in case of an outbreak. The request comes after USDA recently announced the OK fo...

 Purdue Farms is raising more than half its chickens without any kind of antibiotics and also announced a new ad campaign on the company's progress of reducing antibiotic use in poultry. The east...

A trade deal linking 40% of the global economy remains on track for a potential agreement by the end of the month. The 12 nations negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership are slated to meet late this...

While many U.S. producers work towards rebuilding cattle numbers after a prolonged drought, another drought has left Canadian producers in a similar situation. Bloomberg reports a drought has parched ...

The American Farm Bureau, along with other agriculture and industry groups asked a federal court to vacate the controversial new rule redefining the scope of federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water...

The trade embargo remains, but U.S. relations with Cuba took a step further this week as President Obama announced the countries have agreed to open embassies in each other's country. The L.A. Times r...

So far so good for a state bill that would help biomass power plants continue operating. South Valley Assembly member Rudy Salas co-authored the bill AB 590, a bill that cleared the Senate Energy Comm...

President Barack Obama now has the necessary piece of trade legislation to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The President signed the Trade Promotion Authority bill that was passed by the U.S. H...