Dan Nosowitz

The European Union is set to impose new tariffs on a list of American goods this week, including a number of agricultural products. 

On Monday, March 28, President Biden unveiled his budget proposal for the fiscal year 2023. The $5.8-trillion proposal is an interesting one; we’re one more year removed from, hopefully, the worst of COVID-19, and the government is eager to adjust spending back to more normal levels. So, what’s in this budget proposal for food and agriculture?

As with many programs begun under President Donald Trump, the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2 (CFAP 2) underwent considerable examination when the Biden administration took over in January 2021.

Meatpacking plants may rely on lots of human hands, but they also rely on functional computer systems.

During his presidential campaign, Joe Biden promoted biofuels as part of his platform.

A district court in California has rolled back the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a genetically modified salmon. 

Farmworkers, despite working in one of the most grueling jobs in the country, have long lacked some rights that others have.

As part of the American Rescue Plan, Congress pledged $4 billion in debt relief to disadvantaged farmers.

Last week, the Biden administration released its first annual budget proposal. 

In its efforts to keep small businesses afloat during the pandemic, the government made a lot of money available. Probably, in retrospect, it was too available.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve all had to get used to communicating across a distance, whether that’s through video chat or with significant physical separation.

Over the past 100 years, droughts have become both more severe and more frequent.

The USDA has a long and upsetting history of discrimination against farmers of color.

For decades, the meat industry has enjoyed what the National Farmers Union calls “lax antitrust enforcement.”

On Wednesday, the EPA chief, Michael Regan, announced that the Biden administration will formally repeal the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, a law that is barely a year old.

Back in March 2019, Tyson Foods proposed a waiver in which the work of some federal inspectors would be done by Tyson’s own employees. 

With recreational marijuana now legal in more than a dozen states (and Washington, D.C.), legal dispensaries are common across the country.

A crack in a bridge in Tennessee over the Mississippi River could disrupt huge shipments of corn and soybeans from growing regions up north to transportation down south. 

With Elon Musk’s SpaceX scheduled—though certainly not confirmed—to fly to Mars sometime within the next decade, our thoughts naturally turn to agriculture on the red planet.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it will approve new formulations of the herbicide dicamba. 

Corn yields have set records in five of the last seven years, which should mean promising days ahead for one of the country’s most important crops.