FDA
FDA finds glyphosate in food samples in its first-ever test for the herbicide
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has found the herbicide glyphosate in more than 40 percent of samples in its first-ever test of the chemical.
agriculture
Canada, Mexico and U.S. reach trade agreement, amid representatives call for consideration of NAFTA
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Amid growing tensions between U.S. and Canada leadership, Canada, Mexico, and the United States came to an agreement over the weekend to update The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). What will the new agreement mean for U.S. dairy farmers?
agriculture
U.S. Department of Justice appeals pesticide ban
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The U.S. Department of Justice is pushing a federal appeals court to reconsider their decision on the pesticide chlorpyrifos more than a month after a three-judge panel ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban it.
D.C. legislator calls for hearing on relocation proposal of two USDA agencies
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Lawmakers are questioning a proposed move by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to relocate two of its offices by late next year.
Midwest businesses, farmers rally to oppose Trump’s trade war
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Midwest farmers and businesses rallied Tuesday to oppose the escalating U.S.-China trade war. Here's why.
Environment
When Being A Family Farm Doesn’t Mean Squat In The Government’s Eyes
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture sets an industry definition for family farms. But that definition doesn’t take acreage size into consideration and can include operations where the family may not own the land, or even farm it. It defines what a family farm is for a consistent technical term in research and policy, which includes farm subsidies.
Cargill to pay $1.5 million to settle discrimination charges
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Cargill Meat Solutions, headquartered in Wichita, Kan., has agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve charges of discrimination investigated by the Denver Field Office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency announced today.
Twelve things to know about the 2018 Farm Bill
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Congressional leaders from the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives are continuing to reconcile their versions of the 2018 Farm Bill, a nearly $870 billion spending plan for programs such as trade, commodities, food stamps and conservation. Here’s a look at what's in the proposed 2018 Farm Bill
Government
Trade disputes explode under Trump tariff war
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As President Donald Trump continues to wage a multi-front trade war with some of the U.S.’ biggest economic partners, farmers have borne some of the heaviest financial burden.
More than a third of trade disputes involving the U.S. relate to agriculture, according to an analysis of disputes submitted to the World Trade Organization since its creation in 1995.
Report: USDA payments to non-farmers remain high
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The largest federal farm payments were disproportionately paid to farm operations primarily made up of managers, or those who did not actively work on the farm, according to a new government watchdog report released in May. Farm investors and managers received nearly $260 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture subsidy payments in 2015, the Government Accountability Office reported. The top 19 operations receiving farm subsidies in 2015 had an average of nine managers receiving payments.
Steve Morris, Director of Natural Resources and Environment for the GAO, said a trend identified in 2013 is still evident in the 2015 data. “When you look at the definition of ‘actively engaged’ and how that’s breaking out, I think some of those patterns remain consistent,” he said.