Category Archives: Agriculture News

The State Water Resources Control Board says that staff revised the agenda for the August 21st and 22nd board meeting. It means final action on the proposed update to the water quality control plan wh...

A Chinese delegation will travel to the U.S. as part of the ongoing trade war as both sides "remain far apart." Chinese government officials say the delegation will meet with U.S. Treasury Undersecret...

According to Congressman Jim Costa's office, Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue starts Tuesday with a town hall meeting in Modesto. He'll then makes stops at an Oakdale ranch, Joseph Gal...

A U.S. appeals court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban chlorpyrifos within 60 days. The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reverses a Trump administration rev...

The Food and Drug Administration will apparently investigate labeling claims of organic products. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb took to Twitter this week, responding to a critical Wall Street Journa...

The U.S. says it will begin imposing tariffs of 25% on an additional $16 billion in Chinese imports, further escalating the trade war between the two countries. The U.S. Trade Representative's office ...

The aid package announced to offset harm by the Trump administration's trade policy for agriculture could be ready to go by late September according to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue. While in Arg...

Seven groups that represent meat and poultry producers, as well as processors, wrote a letter to President Trump asking him to place cell-cultured protein products under USDA regulation. The meat indu...

Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says the USDA will take several steps to assist farmers suffering from trade damage due to unjust trade retaliation. USDA will authorize up to $12 billion in programs, which ...

"Tariffs are not the ultimate answer," says Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue. Speaking to the Washington International Trade Association, Perdue told the group tariffs are rather "a tool to get peop...