Articles Tagged with ''National Corn Growers Association''

A “stunning” and “dangerous” shift in U.S. policy toward pesticide labeling “poses great risks to our science-based regulatory system and global food systems,” dozens of commodity and other ag groups assert in a letter asking the Biden administration to withdraw a recently filed brief in the Supreme Court.

Members of the House Agriculture Committee are reviewing USDA input on the Senate-passed Growing Climate Solutions Act and modifications suggested by the panel’s top Republican, Glenn “GT” Thompson.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack said USDA is walking a fine line as it navigates competing pressures to produce more food, keep growers profitable and address climate change.

Jon Doggett has announced plans to leave the National Corn Growers Association next year, and Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-N.Y., to serve as Lieutenant Governor of New York.

More than a dozen farm groups are formally supporting a pair of Idaho landowners in a Supreme Court case that could determine the regulatory reach of the Clean Water Act.

The annual gathering of some of the most recognizable commodity groups in ag policy was perhaps as notable for what it didn’t include as what it did.

The Senate on Thursday night gave final congressional approval to a $1.5 trillion bill to fund the government for fiscal 2022, more than five months after the budget year started. The Senate’s 68-31 vote clears the bill for President Biden’s signature.

Three major farm groups are hoping to double the amount of cover crops planted in the United States through an initiative targeting Midwestern corn and soybean farmers.

Lawmakers are still far from an agreement on spending for fiscal 2022 more than four months into the budget year. So, the House is going to take up yet another stopgap spending bill to keep the government funded through March 11. 

Ahsan Faheem has been elevated to vice president of specialty at Vision Produce and Allison Moore has been promoted to executive vice president of the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas.