Dr. Emilio Esteban is leaving the USDA to take a job with Mérieux NutriSciences as Chief Scientific Officer for its North America division and head of its Global Analytical Hub. President Joe ...

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON DC, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has frozen some funding for farmers as it goes through a sweeping review, despite assurances, opens new tab from the ...

The USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is investing $14 million to support food safety research, outreach and workforce training. The investment will fund research and ...

The Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) has renamed the Central Tobacco Research Institute (CTRI-Rajahmundry) after the National Institute for Research on Commercial Agriculture (NIRCA ...

The Senate Agriculture Committee on Monday voted to favorably report the nomination of Brooke L. Rollins, a senior aide for President Donald Trump during his first administration, to be the ...

Citi raised the firm’s price target on British American Tobacco (BTI) to 3,600 GBp from 3,200 GBp and keeps a Buy rating on the shares. Published first on TheFly – the ultimate source for real ...

Kathleen Merrigan has received several grants from USDA. Previously she was employed by the agency as Deputy Secretary (2009-2013) and Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator (1999-2001 ...

The agriculture sector, employing 42.3% of the population and contributing 16% to GDP, faces challenges such as climate change that are leading to inconsistent yields. A case in point is cotton.

FIRST ON FOX — A coalition of more than 400 U.S. farm, agriculture and growers groups sent a letter to Senate leaders this week urging the swift confirmation of President-elect Donald Trump ...

FOUR OAKS, N.C. (WTVD) -- Two owners of a tobacco and vape shop in Four Oaks are now facing multiple charges due to complaints that illegal drugs were being sold. On February 5, the North Carolina ...

Price supports for cotton are necessary, so the politicos say, to protect the nation’s host of small farmers. But last week Delaware’s Senator John Williams dug out facts to show that the ...

Hoskins, who joined the Senate Agriculture Committee staff in 2021 after leaving USDA, would oversee the Agricultural Marketing Service and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. While at ...