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PFAS, which reliably repel water, grease, and heat, are used in everything from paper plates to rain jackets. The compounds,” writes Bridget Huber, “which don’t break down in the ...

The campaign committee for House Democrats lists 10 members of the House Agriculture Committee among 29 “Frontline Democrats” in a fundraising appeal. “We must defend all 29 vulnerable Democrats ...

House Republicans are following the “same ideological strategy that led to the failures of farm bills on the House floor in 2014 and 2018,” said Georgia Rep. David Scott, the senior Democrat on the ...

Pointing to war in Ukraine and conflict in the Middle East, the Biden administration announced an emergency waiver allowing summertime sale nationwide of E15, a higher blend of ethanol into gasoline ...

Sue Hunter in her greenhouse on her 150-acre farm in Unity, Maine. Hunter, a former dairy farmer, was about to turn the operation over to her grandson when testing revealed elevated levels of PFAS ...

With the explosion in production of renewable diesel, yellow grease and corn oil are cutting into soybean oil’s position as the dominant feedstock for biomass-based diesel fuel, said three ...

The European Union is running a four-year promotion of its food and beverage exports to the United States at the same time sales are nearly stagnant. The USDA says EU imports will grow by 1 percent in ...

After repeated delays, House Agriculture chairman Glenn Thompson said on Tuesday that his committee, "without a doubt, will mark up a farm bill before Memorial Day." Republicans on the Senate ...

The Agriculture Department said its research agency “has begun to assess the potential to develop an effective vaccine” against the H5N1 bird flu virus in cattle, although it warned that it is too ...