Concluding a second round of expert testimony on the alleged link between non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Monsanto’s popular weed killer Roundup, a scientist said Friday that a new study finding no link between the two is flawed.
Read moreScientists in Antarctica have harvested their first crop of vegetables grown without earth, daylight or pesticides as part of a project designed to help astronauts cultivate fresh food on other planets.
Read moreReturning to the witness stand, a scientist on Wednesday defended her opinion that Monsanto’s popular weed killer Roundup causes cancer.
Read moreChina on Wednesday issued a $50 billion list of U.S. goods including soybeans and small aircraft for possible tariff hikes in an escalating technology dispute with Washington that companies worry could set back the global economic recovery.
Read moreThe Environmental Law Foundation and others filed three lawsuits in superior court this week against the California Water Resources Control Board and associated entities, claiming they wrongly extended an agricultural irrigation pollution permit in the Central Valley without data to tell whether farmers are polluting groundwater.
Read moreA man convicted of asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pay his debts entertained an incredulous 10th Circuit panel Thursday.
Read moreThe European Union has approved Bayer’s buyout of Monsanto in a massive agriculture business deal, but says they will have to shed over $7.4 billion in firms and other remedies to ensure fair competition in the market.
Read moreReviving a challenge to Monsanto’s marketing of food that contains genetically modified organisms, Europe’s highest court ruled Wednesday that an environmental review is a suitable way to address health concerns.
Read moreThe 10th Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling Tuesday demanding a company compensate children of the Fundamental Church of Latter-day Saints who were forced to harvest pecans.
Read moreA new technique enables crops to use water 25 percent more efficiently without compromising yield, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
Read moreAn Ohio dairy company filed an appeal with the Seventh Circuit on Monday, asking it to review a federal judge’s dismissal of its challenge to a Wisconsin law requiring all butter for sale to be graded by the U.S. Agriculture Department or a state-licensed butter grader.
Read moreAs its vital snowpack shrinks and droughts intensify, California’s giant $50 billion agricultural industry is at a crossroads: how to keep feeding the nation while adapting to the reality of climate change.
Read moreA new scientific study has shaken up the churning international debate on genetically engineered crops by finding that they produce higher yields and contain less harmful contaminants than their traditional counterparts.
Read moreOpportunistic marijuana corporations are taking advantage of a loophole in California’s new cultivation laws, “eviscerating” framework meant to protect small growers in the state’s fledgling industry, a growers association claimed Tuesday in state court.
Read moreMore than 40 agricultural workers claim in Florida court that they developed debilitating illnesses from excessive exposure to toxic herbicides in Dominican sugar cane fields, where they worked long hours, in some instances for less than $10 a day.
Read moreAssessing the already 17-year-old directive on genetically modified organisms, an EU magistrate found no issue Thursday with an exemption of certain genomic alterations, but said member states should be free to pass tighter restrictions.
Read moreA half-ton of butter has been transformed into a sculpture celebrating Pennsylvania’s dairy industry and heralding the start of the state’s 102nd Farm Show.
Read moreA farmers’ advocacy group sued the Trump administration Thursday for scrapping an Obama-era rule intended to shield family farmers from predatory practices by big agribusiness companies.
Read moreAuto insurance does not apply, Europe’s top court ruled Tuesday, to the death of a Portuguese farm worker who was crushed by a tractor that slid down into a vineyard.
Read moreAn attorney for California farmers on Friday asked a Ninth Circuit panel to forbid agricultural union organizers from entering the farmers’ property without permission, in a case with major implications for private property rights.
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