(Beyond Pesticides, October 5, 2026) The responses to the nonpartisan Candidate Questionnaire, Agrichemicals and the Future of Food and Farming in the United States—sent to all those running for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives—shows a wide and deep knowledge of pesticides and organic agriculture issues by those early respondents who are mostly challenging front runners in congressional races. The questionnaire was sent out at the end of September through early October with a deadline of October 16. Beyond Pesticides is calling on voters and organizations to send the...

The first estimate puts vineyards at 77 hectoliters of must per hectare, with irrigation and low disease pressure offsetting heat.

Is the regenerative agriculture movement among major food and drink corporations a fudge? Something akin to all those 2030 carbon emissions targets made at the start of the decade that are fast approaching and increasingly unlikely to be met; or worse, fading away? Or similar to the promises – made prior to the net-zero ones – to cut back on single-use plastic packaging and now left withering on the vine, labelled ‘too difficult’, ‘too inconvenient’ or ‘too costly’, after five years of failed voluntary action? These failures do not span all companies, nor are they confined only to greenhouse gases or disposable packaging. However, the collective failures on arguably the two most high-profile environmental sustainability priorities of recent times have led to concerns that the ambition and hype of the regenerative agriculture transition is following the same furrows. At least so far. “Regenerative agriculture may be reaching a similar stage to net-zero commitments a few years ago,” María Montosa Ródenas, technical specialist at FAIRR, the investor network, says. Early announcements and broad ambitions have attracted attention, she adds, but investors are demanding more transparency, interim milestones and evidence of real-world impact. To find that information – if it is even...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SALINA, Kan. – In 1976, Wes and Dana Jackson launched The Land Institute as a nonprofit school to teach a small group of students ways to grow food that respected nature, conserved energy and water, and managed wastes. As one of the nation’s first regional nonprofit environmental and farm research organizations devoted to land stewardship, the Institute set sail in the powerful current of alternative ideas and new organizations in that era that were determined to change how America operated. You recall that only six years prior 20 million Americans held public demonstrations in support of the first Earth Day. In 1978, though, just two years after it opened, Wes Jackson, a plant geneticist, dramatically shifted the Institute’s work to basic science and plant research devoted to accomplishing an immense feat. He sought to completely overturn the 10,000-year-old system of grain production. Instead of plowing and seeding and harvesting annually, practices that depleted the soil, and wasted water and energy, Jackson proposed developing crops that were planted once, developed deep roots, grew back year after year like perennial flowers or apple trees, and were much less vulnerable to insects, diseases, and droughts. His idea...

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The Trump administration's plan to allow more imports of foreign beef has particularly roiled the agriculture-rich state of Nebraska.

What's NewOn Aug. 18, 2026, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brook L. Rollins announced that the proposed rule and draft environmental impact statement that recommends removing the 2001 Roadle...

Budget committee MEPs want to make sure that debt repayment does not undermine funding for flagship programmes tackling today’s challenges.

President to visit Grand Island as his plan to allow more foreign beef imports proves unpopular in agriculture-rich state; court to hear argument over climate crisis

The Trump administration's plan to allow more imports of foreign beef has particularly roiled the agriculture-rich state of Nebraska.

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