MINNEAPOLIS/WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump’s decision to remove the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement once again is a blow to farmers and rural ...

While American Farm Bureau Federation leaders have hailed the recent Congressional passage of an $8.2 billion crop insurance package as a major victory for farmers the legislation, as was pointed out ...

Today, as the world heads toward the so-called Millennial Round, the mood is marred by the legacy of TRIPs. There is a mood of disaffection amongst developing countries, a perception of imbalance in ...

New hostilities over the Great Bear Rainforest have emerged, seven months after the British Columbia government brokered a deal meant to end a battle between environmentalists and the logging industry ...

This paper develops a framework for assessing the impacts on biodiversity of trade policies such as tariffs, non-tariff barriers and international liberalization agreements. The framework is described ...

Five years ago, Monsanto planned to flood the world with GM crops and reap the profits. Three years ago it received a bloody nose in Europe and had to apologise to the British for misunderstanding ...

Tariffs have been in the news a lot lately. This FAQ explains what tariffs are and how they can be used as a tool in trade ...

With the prospects for a new farm bill uncertain, Washington grain growers are bolstering lobbying efforts for a large federal subsidy program. "I know a lot of people, who, if they wouldn't have got ...

Wall Street Journal | Op-Ed | By HOLMAN W. JENKINS JR. If mankind rejects the benefits of gene splicing, there will be a better reason than one company's public relations miscues. Monsanto was on a ...