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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 ...

I first heard about Steve Acheson and his farm while playing pickup basketball with some colleagues from work,” writes Barrett Swanson. “As we dribbled under yolky sunlight, my friend Josh ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world has added 398 million harvested acres of food grains, feed grains, and oilseeds since the start of the 21st century, mostly in tropical nations, said four analysts writing at the farmdoc ...

The Biden administration is sitting on its hands when it ought to be knocking down trade barriers and negotiating new trade pacts for U.S. food and ag exports, said a bipartisan chorus of senators on ...

The Agriculture Department violates the Constitution by barring farmers from its support programs if they plant crops on wetlands, said an Iowa lawsuit that challenges the four-decade-old Swampbuster ...

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