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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Monday announced USDA will extend waivers to allow faster line speeds at pork and poultry industry, describing the actions as efforts to reduce burdens on …

The Farm Workforce Modernization Act was introduced on Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives, sponsored by Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Dan Newhouse (R-WA). The bill would reform the H-2A …

The Senate Agriculture Committee announced that it will hold a hearing on Tuesday, February 2nd, to consider the nomination of Tom Vilsack as USDA secretary. The hearing begins at 10:30am …

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 14, 2021 – For more than two years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has dragged its feet on the development of gene-edited livestock, an emerging technology …

Earlier this year, USDA announced the first significant purchase for its Foot-and-Mouth (FMD) vaccine bank. Last week, the purchase worth $27 million was delivered to the bank. The establishment of …

The impact of COVID-19 has toppled the markets in the last two months. The suspension of packing plant operations and rising employee absenteeism due to the corona-virus outbreak has exacerbated …

Thirty-one agriculture organizations and businesses are calling on the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to include agricultural businesses in the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program (EIDL), as intended by Congress …