EPA Sets Deadline to Consider Treated Seeds EPA recently released a proposed consent decree to resolve litigation brought by environmental groups suing the Agency to require regulatory oversight [...]

A Variety Revival – Purple Straw Wheat Brings Flavor Back in Vogue Purple Straw wheat, a variety that nearly went extinct, is making a comeback thanks to plant breeder Brian Ward at Clemson [...]

Dicamba Gets a New Trial (but not the one it wanted) Last week, the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in Monsanto’s & BASF’s appeal of a jury verdict in the [...]

Hello and Happy Independence Day weekend! We hope everyone is looking forward to the long holiday weekend and the time to celebrate the events that made the United States of America the greatest [...]

​   No Need to Wait for Delta-8 (at least in the 9th) Delta-8 THC, one of the more than one hundred different cannabinoids in the cannabis plant, has been deemed legalized by the US 9th [...]

Docket No. AMS-AMS-22-0025 87 Fed. Reg. 15198 Competition and the Intellectual Property System: Seeds and Other Agricultural Inputs Thank you for the opportunity to submit comments to assist the [...]

Congress Aims to Bring Order to the Wild, Wooly World of Biostimulants The Plant Biostimulant Act of 2022 was introduced in Congress this month as an amendment to the Federal Insecticide, [...]

Arkansas State Plant Board Unconstitutional – Again For the second time in a less than a year litigation over the appointment process for members of the Arkansas State Plant Board has been [...]

USDA Extends Deadline to June 15, 2022 for Public Comments on Agri-Competition Issues This is a golden opportunity to be heard on very important issues affecting the U.S. Agricultural sector in [...]

Delta Dirt Distillery’s Sweet Vodka Farms willing to take a leap and step outside of the commodity cycle can reap some fine rewards, and Harvey Williams, Jr. has done just that with his [...]