The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced three new cases of New World screwworm, including the first cases in dogs and goats, on Monday, bringing the nation’s total case count to five. It also pledged to ramp up and expedite mitigation efforts for screwworm, a parasitic fly that the nation declared eradicated in the 1960s. At…
The Trump administration is preparing to allow off-road vehicles on millions of acres of national forest land, according to a draft order prepared for Brooke Rollins, the agriculture secretary. The move is a companion to President Trump’s decision on May 29 to repeal two executive orders that for decades had protected other public lands, including…
In the early months of the year, thousands of men make their way north from Mexico and Central America to tend America’s most delicate crops. They travel on chartered buses through the night to farms where they spend most of the year picking crops like blueberries and celery, produce still harvested best by human hands….
The New World screwworm — a fly whose larvae feed on the tissue of livestock, wildlife and pets — has been detected in a 3-week-old calf in La Pryor, Texas, the Agriculture Department confirmed on Wednesday night. It is the first case found in cattle in the United States since the insect was eradicated from…
Trying to devise a one-size-fits-all description for ultraprocessed foods is flummoxing federal regulators. For months, the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has promised to create a definition of ultraprocessed, a crucial part of the Make America Healthy Again agenda. In mid-April, he testified before Congress that the Food and Drug Administration had forwarded a…
Inside a low-slung building on the outskirts of this town in north-central Washington State, federal scientists are examining how tree seedlings are responding to a drier, hotter climate, collecting important data as officials brace for what is expected to be an intense wildfire season. But this federal research station and 56 others in 31 states…
