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Senate passes farm bill; food stamp fight looms in House

August 24, 2021 at 11:40 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-run U.S. Senate passed a $500 billion, five-year farm bill on Monday that expands a taxpayer-subsidized crop insurance program and rejects sweeping cuts in food stamps...

Senate passes farm bill; food stamp fight looms in House

May 23, 2019 at 4:13 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-run U.S. Senate passed a $500 billion, five-year farm bill on Monday that expands a taxpayer-subsidized crop insurance program and rejects sweeping cuts in food stamps...

U.S. expands search team in GMO wheat investigation

August 24, 2021 at 11:16 a.m.

WASHINGTON, SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States has expanded its search team in Oregon as it hunts for the source of unapproved genetically modified wheat found growing wild on a...

U.S. probes source of GMO wheat in Oregon; importers suspend orders

August 24, 2021 at 11:01 a.m.

WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - Two days after news that genetically modified wheat had been found growing in Oregon, U.S. officials said they were no closer to knowing how it appeared, while...

USDA still unsure how GMO wheat got into field: official

August 24, 2021 at 11:06 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials are "pursuing many avenues" of how unapproved genetically modified wheat may have shown up in an Oregon field, a top official with the Department of...

Roiled by mystery GMO wheat, U.S. races to reassure buyers

August 24, 2021 at 10:54 a.m.

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials raced to quell global alarm on Thursday over the first-ever discovery of an unapproved strain of genetically modified wheat, working to figure out how the...

USDA goes sleuthing to crack biotech wheat mystery

August 24, 2021 at 10:56 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After an alert a month ago, a team of U.S. plant detectives methodically began to gather evidence for what would lead to a jarring announcement for the...

House farm bill moves ahead with big cut in food stamps

December 24, 2018 at 1:51 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican-controlled panel in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the biggest cuts in food stamps for the poor in a generation and a potentially...

House farm bill moves ahead with big cut in food stamps

November 3, 2021 at 6:06 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican-controlled panel in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the biggest cuts in food stamps for the poor in a generation and a potentially...

Meat packers, union seek new visa allowing year-round workers

August 24, 2021 at 9:22 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Foreign workers could gain visas for year-round work in U.S. meat processing plants under a proposal by the meat industry and the meatpackers union for immigration reform...

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