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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
In this opinion piece, Northwest Missouri farmer Blake Hurst discusses the recent Supreme Court decisions and their impact on producers around the country.
The Supreme Court has rejected the arguments of hog farmers that California’s Proposition 12, which bans the sales of pork coming from sows confined in gestation crates, violates the Constitution's Commerce Clause.
Brazil is finishing up the harvest of a record-breaking crop this year, and USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service is now predicting the country’s farmers will plant an even bigger one for the 2023-24 marketing year.
Petitions asking a federal appeals court to revisit its decision on the insecticide sulfoxaflor are likely to be filed today, the deadline set by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Erick Lutt is now the director of federal government affairs for Bayer U.S., Crop Science based in Washington D.C., and new staffers are added to the House Agriculture Committee for both the Republican and Democratic staff.
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is in California today, where he is expected to announce another series of efforts to improve competition in agribusiness and address a meat labeling issue that has dogged the agency for years.
The National Pork Producers Council's first quarter economic update says labor and input costs will weigh on industry margins even as production is expected to expand this year.
Andrew Genasci has been tapped as the new executive director of the San Joaquin Farm Bureau Federation and John Bagan is the new president and CEO of Gelson’s.
Bill Anderson is the new CEO of Bayer and former Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., has joined the American Association of Crop Insurers as an adviser to its board of directors.