South Korea has rescinded a 2012 ban on table-stock potatoes from Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced the reversal on Dec. 18. The ban stemmed from "technical concerns," according to…
It’s been a miserable few years for Florida’s orange crop. And now to add insult to injury, California is gearing up to steal the sunshine’s state crown as the king of U.S. citrus production. After a decade of the citrus-greening…
According to the USDA, nearly all of the cotton crop has been picked, and now the gins are hard at work. In Red Springs, North Carolina, the Hoke Robeson gin reached its 50,000 bale mark for the season earlier in…
States can enjoy greater local control of how Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamp) benefits are administered, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says. While the USDA did not spell out the implications of its new policy, Politico reported it could…