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USDA SECURE rule paves way for agricultural innovation

Date：May. 27, 2020 Category：Regulations

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has announced a final rule updating and modernizing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) biotechnology regula...

How Covid-19 is affecting Indian harbors

Date：Apr. 21, 2020 Category：Markets

Mumbai: The harbor still had an enormous backlog. This was due to a lack of administrative staff, truck drivers, and crane operators. To reduce congestion, Jawa...

US EPA announces new evaluation method for pesticides

Date：Mar. 16, 2020 Category：Regulations

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced a new method for conducting biological evaluations under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to a...

USDA provides almost $70 million in fiscal year 2020 to protect agriculture and natural resources from plant pests and diseases

Date：Mar. 4, 2020 Category：Markets

USDA is allocating almost $70 million to support 386 projects under the Plant Protection Act’s Section 7721 (PPA 7721) program to strengthen the nation’s infr...

U.S. Department of Agriculture announces details of risk management programs for hemp producers

Date：Feb. 10, 2020 Category：Regulations

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced the availability of two programs that protect hemp producers’ crops from natural disasters.

Global cotton trade is projected at a 7-year high

Date：Jan. 29, 2020 Category：Markets

For 2019, increased imports are expected in many non-cotton-producing countries, as well as some producing ones.

Tags:Cotton AgriData

United Nations declares 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health

Date：Jan. 28, 2020 Category：Markets

Plants make the oxygen we breathe and give us 80 percent of the food we eat. But plants are under attack by invasive pests. These pests destroy up to 40 percent...

USDA, FDA, EPA launch website for biotechnology regulation

Date：Jan. 10, 2020 Category：Products

Today, in recognition of January 2020 as National Biotechnology Month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and th...

Researchers fortify alfalfa, the "Queen of the Forages", with disease defense

Date：Dec. 17, 2019 Category：Science&Research

Alfalfa is often called the "Queen of the Forages" due to its high yield, feed quality for ruminant animals, nitrogen fixation and pollinator habitat among othe...

USDA pesticide report: 99% of samples below benchmark levels

Date：Dec. 16, 2019 Category：Regulations

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today published the 2018 Pesticide Data Program (PDP) Annual Summary. The summary...

Tags:Pests&Diseases Environment & Health

USDA: Vietnam, Malaysia drive significant growth in SE Asian corn imports

Date：Nov. 11, 2019 Category：Markets

Southeast Asia’s expanding population and increasing incomes, urbanization, and retail sectors are contributing to rising meat consumption and growing imports ...

World's first true red spinach variety released

Date：Nov. 5, 2019 Category：Products

USDA Red, the world's first true red spinach variety has been developed and released by the Agricultural Research Service.

Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

USDA publishes response to National List for organic crops and handling recommendations

Date：Oct. 25, 2019 Category：Regulations

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently published a final rule in the Federal Register to amend the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances (Nati...

The use of genetically engineered dicamba-tolerant soybean seeds has increased quickly, benefiting adopters but damaging crops in some fields

Date：Oct. 14, 2019 Category：Markets

Weeds can cause serious problems for U.S. soybean producers. Left untreated, severe weed infestations can reduce soybean yields by more than 50 percent. Most so...

Tags:GM crop Soybean

USDA invests $11M in research that will support specialty crop farmers

Date：Oct. 4, 2019 Category：Markets

U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Under Secretary Scott Hutchins announced on Oct. 3 that the National Institute of Food and Agriculture has invested $11 mi...

USDA, WASDE Reports Rallies The Soybean Market 29¢.

Date：Sep. 13, 2019 Category：Markets

The U.S. farmers will have a bigger corn crop than the trade expected, according to the USDA.

Tags:Soybean

USDA: 2018 farm act mandates spending of $428 billion over 5 years

Date：Aug. 12, 2019 Category：Markets

The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Act) was signed into law December 20, 2018, and will remain in force through the end of fiscal year 2023, alt...

USDA to deregulate BASF’s GM Canola and Verdeca’s GM soybean

Date：Aug. 8, 2019 Category：Regulations

USDA is advising the public of determinations that canola designated as event LBFLFK, which has been genetically engineered to allow for the synthesis of long c...

Tags:GM crop

US census data on cover crop plantings

Date：Jul. 29, 2019 Category：Markets

Cover crops is examined in this article. Cover crops have attracted intense interest as a practice that may reduce negative impacts of farming on the environmen...

USDA: Soybeans accounted for majority of US, Brazil's agricultural exports to China