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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, January 08, 2025
A new proposal to reduce wastewater discharges from meat and poultry slaughterhouses and processing plants has the Environmental Protection Agency facing criticism from both environmentalists and the meat industry.
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says he’s against a proposal to be more restrictive with future rewrites of the Thrifty Food Plan, the calculation used to determine Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Blake Zante has been named as the new executive director of The Kenneth L. Maddy Institute and Robin Vercruse has been named the executive director of the Low Carbon Fuels Coalition.
In this week's Farm Hands, the U.S. Trade Representative's office is undergoing staff changes and may get a new nominee for deputy. Plus, we profile several other new jobs and promotions on Capitol Hill, within trade associations and businesses.
A federal appeals court concluded Monday that two Iowa statutes that prohibit undercover access to farms and recording of their practices are constitutional.
The Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides and several farmworker advocacy groups are pushing the EPA to cancel glyphosate's registration in light of a federal court decision that found fault with the agency's human health assessment.
