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USDA’s Risk Management Agency is expanding its whole-farm revenue protection plan with the goal of garnering more participation from aquaculture and organic producers. RMA announced changes Tuesday ...

Researchers at VIB (a leading life sciences institute in Flanders, Belgium) and Ghent University have successfully established a causal relationship between exposure to so-called farm dust and ...

Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society, and Michael Pollan, a food writer, urged consumers to support higher standards for farm animal protection at an event held in Memorial Church ...

SOUTHLAKE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Farm Shield has emerged from stealth mode to address the needs of crop protection companies with their proprietary platform technology. Farm Shield’s unique ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As someone who spent four decades in Congress fighting for the well-being of American farmers, rural communities, and farm animals ...

The dangerous and extremely controversial EATS Act was reintroduced in Congress as the Food Security and Farm Protection Act (S. 1326). Now, a similar bill, the so-called Save Our Bacon Act (H.R. 4673 ...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s newest farm worker–safety proposal is haunted. A recommendation for extensive changes to the EPA’s forty-year-old Worker Protection Standard, the proposal, which ...

Rising land values and an outdated cap on funds paid to farmers to avoid land sell-offs are constraining a state-run program to preserve vital farmland, according to a new audit by state Comptroller ...

(Beyond Pesticides, December 4, 2023) With a history of neglect of farmworker protection in the workplace, advocates are pointing to the need for ensuring stringent enforcement of regulations that are ...