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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, March 30, 2025
President Joe Biden removed any doubt and quashed a vote of the House and Senate to overturn his administration’s Waters of the U.S. rule, vetoing a joint resolution Thursday.
Senate Agriculture Committee staff are going through requests from 98 senators detailing what they want to see in the farm bill as the committee works to get a bill ready this year.
EPA is asking registrants of four organophosphate insecticides to submit new label amendments, which could include canceling some uses, to better protect workers who mix, load and apply the chemicals, and anyone who comes in contact with them.
An Environmental Protection Agency official says the agency is exploring a variety of solutions that would allow E15 sales to take place in 2023 while also advancing a petition to legalize the sales in the Midwest the following year.
Capitol Hill lawmakers are enthused by the first step taken Monday in a lengthy process that could lead to a dispute panel under USMCA challenging Mexico’s efforts to block genetically modified corn imports from the U.S.
The Environmental Protection Agency has rolled out its long-awaited response to a petition that would expand sales of higher ethanol blends, but its proposal includes a delay that has already angered the biofuels industry.
Animal agriculture groups and USDA are concerned that EPA-proposed restrictions on rodenticides will increase costs for producers but not provide effective control of rats, mice, moles and other vermin.
Manufacturers of neonicotinoids and the growers and applicators who use them are keeping a close eye on legislation in New York state that would ban the planting of corn, soybean and wheat seeds coated with the insecticides.
Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is pressing for legislation allowing use of E15 throughout the year in the face of delayed action from the Environmental Protection Agency.
