In rare alignment with climate activists, Big Oil wants the D.C. Circuit to reinstate rules that aim to decrease smog emissions — at the expense, farmers say, of America’s corn belt.
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A federal court in Minnesota vacated part of the Food Safety and Inspection Service’s “New Swine Inspection System,” which eliminated “evisceration line speed limits” at pork slaughterhouses. The service received many comments raising concerns about worker safety under the new system but disregarded them.
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It’s a race against time for nonprofits, organizations and officials who are trying to vaccinate thousands of farmworkers who were denied priority access in Florida but now have to travel north to harvest crops in other regions.
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Rising temperatures have taken a disproportionate toll on the food supplies of already-warm countries, far outpacing the declining growth found in the United States and Europe. And it may get worse.
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The three-judge panel found environmental and food safety advocates do not have standing to challenge Sanderson Farms over its “misleading” ads on antibiotics in chicken.
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Russia announced Wednesday it had registered what it said was the world’s first coronavirus vaccine for animals, describing the step as important to disrupting mutations.
Read moreA federal court in Washington ruled in favor of the U.S. Department of Labor in a suit brought by four agricultural workers and an agricultural labor organization challenging the department’s practice of certifying employers for H-2A foreign worker visas without prevailing wage data.
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Property owners say that labor drives have disrupted busy harvest operations, and that there are more suitable locations to organize somewhere where workers won’t be distracted.
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An earth-friendly burger may be able to contain beef after all.
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By identifying the gene that tells peaches when to bloom, scientists have rounded a corner in the race to keep up with our ever-changing climate.
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A third of all the world’s man-made greenhouse gas emissions are linked to food, according to new global research that tracked produce from field to fork to landfill.
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It’s used to fight a disease that kills Florida citrus trees, but the pesticide aldicarb also carries the risk of hurting farmworkers as well as children.
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Taipei slammed a sudden Chinese ban on Taiwanese pineapples, describing the move on Friday as “economic intimidation” and likening it to recent tariffs Beijing slapped on Australian wine.
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The San Francisco County Superior Court rejected the National Retail Federation, the Western Growers Association and other retail and agricultural industry groups’ requests for an injunction to block the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board from enforcing safety measures adopted to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
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The Senate voted 92-7 Tuesday to confirm Tom Vilsack as Agriculture secretary, his second run at the Cabinet post.
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A federal court in Georgia ruled that a blogger who runs a site about the global pecan market must pay the owner of a business that sells nuts $60,000 in damages for making libelous statements about the owner, including that he co-founded a business that was accused of stealing millions of dollars’ worth of pecans from growers.
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Governments worldwide are using the Covid-19 pandemic to push through destructive development projects and roll back protections of indigenous groups, according to a global report on deforestation and rule of law released Thursday.
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There are 35 types of fruits and vegetables grown in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Freezing temperatures may financially ruin some of the region’s growers because they cannot get insurance for their crops.
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French researchers announced Tuesday that they had succeeded in cultivating the rare white truffles mainly found in Italy, a breakthrough that could spur more widespread efforts to grow the prized delicacy.
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Heavy rains followed by an extended drought, an increase in local consumption and a drop in the number of marijuana farmers have caused a shortage in the island’s famed but largely illegal market that experts say is the worst they’ve seen.
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