by Beef News | Aug 16, 2025 | Farm Policy, Health
On August 15, in McAllen, TX, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins unveiled a “sweeping plan” to stop the New World Screwworm (NWS) from crossing into Texas — headlined by a $750 million sterile-fly plant in Edinburg capable of producing 300 million flies/week....
by Beef News | Aug 8, 2025 | Health, Technology
Republished from The HighwireWritten by Steven Middendorp President Donald Trump and cabinet members announced plans for a Health Technology Ecosystem overseen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The ecosystem was listed on...
by Beef News | Jul 27, 2025 | Health, Policy, Science
Biotech’s next phase won’t look like Monsanto—it’ll look like software updates sprayed onto crops. On July 1, 2025, Flagship Pioneering—the same venture firm that birthed Moderna—unveiled Terrana Biosciences, a $50 million RNA agriculture startup promising “real-time...
by Beef News | Jul 25, 2025 | Health, Farm Policy, Policy
The fix is in. And they’re hoping you don’t notice. On July 23, 2025, the House Appropriations Committee quietly advanced two of the most industry-serving provisions in recent memory: Section 453, which would grant lawsuit immunity to pesticide manufacturers, and...
by Beef News | Jul 21, 2025 | Health, Farm Policy, Science
While America’s farmers struggle to navigate corporate monopolies and rising input costs, a quiet clause buried on page 196 of a House spending bill could lock pesticide safety to foreign-controlled science—and tie the hands of U.S. regulators. Welcome to Section 453...
by Breeauna Sagdal | Jul 20, 2025 | Health, Policy, Science
Following a tense year of Monsanto-Bayer’s 6-pronged strategy, making agrichemicals the next class of liability immune products in the United States, anger erupted last week all across social media as the federal level strategy was revealed. That palpable...
