USDA will crack down on animal-raising claims, such as ‘grass-fed’ and ‘free-range,’ and could require lab testing or launch a new verification sampling program for negative antibiotics claims, such ...

The agency's method now incorporates the Illumina MiSeq i100 sequencing platform, and the Microbiology Laboratory Guidebook ...

This forces farmers in states without a DEA-registered testing lab into making an unacceptable choice: mail or transport a sample across state lines to a DEA lab that – if the sample is noncompliant – ...

The agricultural sector has been through significant changes since the 2018 Farm Bill was enacted. Hemp production was legalized at the federal level in the United States. Hemp production and testing ...

The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL), and the ARS’s Partnership for Data Innovations (PDI) have launched a new web-based application to facilitate ...

A "lab-on-a-drone" collects a water sample near a tile outlet draining a farm field. Photo provided by Jonathan Claussen, ...