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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, January 04, 2025
Jeff Oberman has been tapped as the California Avocado Commission’s new president and Erica Pinto has been appointed to serve as the vice chair of the Department of the Interior’s inaugural Secretary’s Tribal Advisory Committee.
Promotions and new staff at Tyson Foods, new presidents for NCGA and NASDA and lots of staff changes on Capitol Hill in this week's Farm Hands on the Potomac.
Jenny Martin has started working for The Sugar Association as the senior director of communications, and CGB Enterprises has tapped Eric Slater to lead the organization as the new chief executive officer.
Fertilizer prices were already soaring due to weather and supply chain shocks exacerbated by the COVID pandemic before Russia invaded Ukraine in February, leading USDA to announce a $250 million investment in new U.S. production capacity. The question is how much impact that funding can have.
The Department of Agriculture is projecting a farm income boost for 2021, but growers are looking ahead to 2022 and worried about the role rising input costs will play in their bottom lines.
The 117th Congress is officially underway with the swearing in of new members Sunday. The House includes a number of new members who could play a role in shaping food and agriculture policy, considering its importance to their districts.
The trade association for the nation’s fertilizer producers is adding a cache of members with a slightly different set of interests to its growing organization.
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.
CropLife America President and CEO Chris Novak says the nation's crop protection sector is battered, but not broken after enduring a growing season that took place in the midst of a pandemic that stalled many other facets of the economy.
