Rising global temperatures will lead to considerable spikes in the variability of annual corn yields by the end of the century, increasing the likelihood of simultaneous low outputs across several high-producing regions, a new study from the National Academy of Sciences finds.
Read moreThe Center for Food Safety and 13 organic food groups lost another legal challenge this week to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s process for reviewing substances used in organic farming.
Read moreIn an embarrassment for House Republican leaders, conservatives on Friday scuttled a bill that combines stricter work and job training requirements for food stamp recipients with a renewal of farm subsidies popular in GOP-leaning farm country.
Read moreThree neonicotinoid insecticides will remain banned in Europe, the General Court ruled Thursday, finding the measures justified to protect honeybees.
Read moreThe Southeast Alaska Conservation Council brought a federal complaint against the U.S. Department of Agriculture for using a 2007 environmental impact statement to approve logging of 31.4 million board-feet on 1,208 acres in Tongass National Forest.
Read moreThe European Union made a key breakthrough on Friday to completely ban pesticides that harm bees and their crop pollination.
Read moreA federal jury on Thursday awarded more than $50 million in damages to neighbors of an industrial hog operation found responsible for intense smells, noise and other disturbances so bad people couldn’t enjoy their rural homes.
Read moreA class of more than 60,000 farmers claim they were tricked into agreeing to pay an unfair amount of attorney fees in their cases against agribusiness giant Syngenta over its genetically modified corn.
Read moreA major European dairy cooperative says that currency swings caused by Brexit are among the reasons it has to cut costs by over $495 million over the next three years.
Read moreConcluding 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.
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