Category Archives: Agriculture News

A panel of scientists is disputing a World Health Organization report that labels the main ingredient of Roundup as "probably carcinogenic to humans."Reuters reports the 16-member panel presented its ...

The World Trade Organization says Canada and Mexico can implement tariffs just over $1 billion because of the U.S. Country of Origin Meat Labeling law. An arbitration panel announced the final ruling,...

Congress has until December 18th or two weeks, to pass tax extenders important to agriculture. The House earlier this year voted Section 179 expensing permanent, among other tax extenders, but the Sen...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture will host informational sessions on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Final Rules for Produce Safety ...

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The surplus in agricultural trade will tumble 63 percent to the lowest in a decade, according to a report by Bloomberg. That's because of lower commodity prices and a stronger dollar that reduces the ...

University of California researchers says protecting animals that enter the human food supply should require agnostic governance of technologies that affect animal science, especially regarding geneti...

  Despite recent storms, no change was made to the intensity of drought in California or Nevada over the past week, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor released November 25. The cutoff for the ...

USDA predicts net U.S. farm income will drop 38 percent this year to $55.9 billion. That would be the lowest level in more than a decade, reflecting lower crop prices and softening dairy and hog marke...

Live hog prices fell below $40 per hundredweight last week, their lowest level since November 2009. Purdue University Extension economist Chris Hurt says the source of the current downturn in prices h...