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**The Senate Ag Committee has approved a bill to reauthorize the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act, which requires companies to pay fees to help fund registration applications and reviews conducted by the EPA. The measure cleared the committee by voice vote last week...

**The already controversial decision by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, determining the widely used herbicide glyphosate probably causes cancer in humans, is now subject to more debate. Armed with recent evidence, critics of the report charge that IARC should have considered unpublished data that may have altered the report’s 2015 conclusion...

WSU animal nutrition scientist researcher Frank Hendrix has built the perfect steak using cattle DNA tenderness markers that he developed with a team from WSU Animal Sciences. Together this 10 year collaboration has resulted in that study that has received gobal attention by it’s finding that tenderness is inherited trait...

Environmental groups have asked the U.S. government to seize hundreds of jailed militant rancher Cliven Bundy's cattle, saying unregulated grazing of his herd on public lands in Nevada threatens habitat for federally protected desert tortoises...

Several agencies are investigating four multi-state outbreaks of human salmonella infections linked to contact with live poultry in backyards. The CDC reports 181 people have been infected with four strains of salmonella in 40 states with 33 people sent to hospitals as of June 29th...

A coalition representing family farmers, ranchers, consumers and rural affairs submitted testimony urging Congress to reject any policy riders in the Fiscal Year 2016 Ag Appropriations bill that would weaken or withdraw COOL or limit the rule making authority of GIPSA...

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have found cows are protected from a parasite that causes a deadly disease - East Coast Fever - if they've previously been infected with a closely-related yet milder species of the parasite. After tracking 500 Kenyan calves from birth to age 1 - researchers found deaths caused by East Coast Fever dropped 89-percent among calves infected with other speci

Some cow-calf producers may be wondering how they can best take advantage of the current market.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stated last week he was so frustrated with the current working group’s failure to reach an agreement he wants to start a second checkoff under the 1996 generic checkoff act.

The Taylor Bridge fire caused hundreds to lose their pastures and bales of hay leaving their animals with nothing to eat.  Now they need your donations to help make it through this winter. Our news partner KIMA Action News reports the animal donation drop-off in Ellensburg said they have enough cat and dog food, but they can't seem to keep enough livestock feed...