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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, January 05, 2025
An EPA proposal to gradually reduce the use of some Bt corn and cotton products is getting pushback from grower groups and has the crop protection industry concerned about losing products they still consider effective.
The Biden transition team has been soliciting input from farm groups on what they would like to see in potential nominees to key agencies. That’s the word from the CEO of the National Corn Growers Association, Jon Doggett.
Curt Hudnutt has been tapped as the new president and chief executive officer of American AgCredit, Roland Fumasi will lead Rabobank’s RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness team in North America and Julie Busse has been promoted to communications director at the National Corn Growers Association.
John Linder has been tapped to serve as the new president of the National Corn Growers Association, and CropLife America, the National Sorghum Producers, and North American Millers’ Association elect new board leadership.
President Donald Trump is instructing the Environmental Protection Agency to deny small refinery petitions in the Renewable Fuel Standard, potentially neutralizing a nagging campaign issue for Republicans, Reuters reports.
The Environmental Protection Agency and USDA have launched a competition that seeks to determine how effective and efficient certain fertilizers are at delivering nutrients to corn with reduced environmental impact.
Despite progress on gender diversity and ongoing outreach efforts to the black community, many in agriculture struggle to be more inclusive and racially diverse. Key black leaders explain why more effort is needed.
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer have appointed 25 new members to serve on seven agricultural trade advisory committees.
Former White House physician Ronny Jackson pledged to keep pushing President Donald Trump's "America First" agenda after winning the GOP nomination for a Texas congressional seat over a cattle industry lobbyist who was backed by the Texas Farm Bureau and other state and national ag groups.
A federal judge has reaffirmed his earlier decision that the state of California cannot require a cancer warning label on glyphosate-based products such as Roundup under its Proposition 65 law.
