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September 17, 2026
San Francisco Chronicle (this link is no longer available) By David Pitt, Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Environmental and animal welfare groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, alleging the federal agency unlawfully scrapped a rule that would have authorized it to collect information from large-scale ...
We must resist seed monopolies of corporates, they harm us all, writes biodiversity campaigner Vandana Shiva The Guardian What happens to the seed affects the web of life. When seed is living, regenerative and diverse, it feeds pollinators, soil organisms and animals – including humans. When seed is non-renewable, bred ...
Reuters By Cary Gillam (Reuters) – Researchers in the key corn-growing state of Illinois are finding significant damage from rootworms in farm fields planted in a rotation with a genetically modified corn that is supposed to protect the crop from the pests, according to a new report. Evidence gathered from ...
Public News Service – CA Lori Abbott/Deb Courson Smith SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Some California farmers are voicing concerns over the FDA’s proposed implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act. They say the rules are excessive and may put small farmers out of business. Judith Redmond, the co-owner of Full Belly ...
Miami New Times (this link no longer available) By Tim Elfrink Flaunt state law by illegally spraying pesticide that destroys millions of bees, threatens a local ecosystem and costs local beekeepers a quarter of a million bucks? Better think twice! If Florida regulators catch you in the act, you’ll have ...
Officials say poultry industry needs more time to adjust The Baltimore Sun By Timothy B. Wheeler Maryland officials pulled back a proposed regulation Monday aimed at reducing farm runoff polluting the Chesapeake Bay after chicken growers warned it could cripple the state’s lucrative poultry industry if imposed now. The state ...
NPR By Allison Aubrey One day about eight years ago, chef Dan Barber of the famed Blue Hill restaurant at Stone Barns in the Hudson River Valley got a FedEx package from someone he didn’t know. Inside were two ears of corn. And a letter. The handwritten note explained that ...
By Maryam Henein, HoneyColony Original “In an ongoing effort to protect bees and other pollinators”, the Environmental Protection Agency recently developed a new pesticide label that will (supposedly) prohibit use of some pesticide products where bees are present. Specifically, the new label applies to ‘systemic pesticides known as neonicotinoids, such ...
Indiana Public Media News By Sehvilla Mann [This is the second story in a three-part series on pesticide drift.] As Red Gold Incorporated Director of Agriculture Steve Smith watches cans of tomato sauce whip down the line at the company’s processing plant in Orestes, he says it is his job ...
More than 150 U.S. farm and food businesses and organizations on Wednesday called for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to strengthen its oversight of field trials of experimental, genetically modified crops Reuters By Carey Gillam The group includes organic and natural food industry representatives as well as family farm and ...
The New Zealand Herald Two major New Zealand retailers have moved to stop stocking a controversial group of insecticides over claims they harm bees. Green MP Steffan Browning wrote to gardening companies this year asking them to stop selling products containing the chemical group neonicotinoids, typically found in bug and ...
NPR By Luke Runyon As the average age of the American farmer has crept up to 60, fewer young people are filling in the ranks behind them. That’s prompted some to ask if young people even want to farm anymore. The quick answer is yes, just not in the same ...
