AN Oregon State University scientist is heading a multinational team studying how to anticipate and curb the next disease outbreak before it blows up into a global epidemic...

ELLEN Kullman, chair and chief executive officer of DuPont, retired from the company on Oct. 16...

FAIR Oaks Farms owner Mike McCloskey wants to make the operation a zero-carbon footprint dairy farm. He said he isn't sure exactly how he is going to do it, but that is what he aspires to achieve...

AVIAGEN, a leading poultry breeding company, announced that it has completed a $9.5 million expansion of its hatchery in Sallisaw, Okla...

THE Southern Environmental Law Center recently filed a new motion on behalf of the Waterkeeper Alliance and Sound Rivers Inc. as the groups seek to require Murphy-Brown to comply with a 2006 agreement to clean up groundwater contamination at its...

THE dairy industry said it is "critical" that Congress solve the trade dispute over country-of-origin labeling (COOL) to head off damaging new tariffs Canada and Mexico may impose on U.S. dairy exports...

SMITHFIELD Foods Inc. announced that Dennis Treacy, executive vice president and chief sustainability officer, intends to retire from the company, effective Dec. 31, 2016...

NEW research can help grain handlers and grain inspectors find key locations for pathogens and pests along rail routes in the U.S. and Australia, according to the University of Florida's Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) faculty...

NBAF animal ag security ideas sought: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is looking for ideas to help protect the U.S. animal agriculture industry by using resources at the new National Bio & Agro-defense Facility (NBAF) in Kansas. Ideas for...

NEW life has been breathed into the national debate on genetically modified organism (GMO) labeling, but many wonder what legislation could include...