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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, August 16, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration has released draft guidance on its second round of voluntary sodium reduction targets in various commercially processed, packaged and prepared foods in its latest effort to address diet-related diseases connected with high-sodium intake.
Four major projects that are part of Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities initiative showcase the varied approaches farm groups, companies and non-profit sponsors are taking to prove the impact of conservation practices on ag’s environmental footprint.
Dairy cattle transported from Texas have been implicated in the spread of the H5N1, or bird flu, virus found in at least four of the seven states outside of Texas that have reported infections, according to states where H5N1 has been found.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a dairy herd in North Carolina, bringing to seven the number of states where HPAI has been found in dairy cattle. The other states are Texas, Kansas, Michigan, Idaho, New Mexico and Ohio.
The first thing U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack did after the U.S. lost its second USMCA dairy battle with Canada was vow to keep on fighting – reminiscent of statements released by U.S. lawmakers and U.S. dairy groups, but that fight may be at an end after two exhaustive legal fights that both ended in a decision by a three-member dispute panel.
The USDA’s Economic Research Service on Thursday lowered its forecast for U.S. agricultural exports in fiscal year 2024 to $169.5 billion. That’s down $2.5 billion from USDA’s previous forecast in August and down $9.2 billion from exports in FY 2023.
The U.S. lost its latest dispute with Canada over the country’s operation of a tariff rate quota for dairy imports under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, according to a Friday announcement from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
The Biden administration has made it clear it won't use the 14-nation Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity to negotiate lower tariffs on American ag exports, but U.S. officials insist there are plenty of non-tariff trade barriers to be resolved, and U.S. farm groups’ hopes are high as talks continue this week in San Francisco during a seventh round of negotiations.
The creation of the first inset carbon market, fueled by private and public partnerships, establishes a new revenue stream for dairy farmers that industry members hope will fuel continued innovation to reach agriculture's economic and environmental sustainability goals.