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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, November 04, 2024
Agriculture groups and state-level agencies are calling on the Agriculture Department, the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency to give rendering a greater role in their proposed strategy for reducing food loss and waste.
The Agriculture Department and Americorps on Monday unveiled the Working Lands Climate Corps, a program aimed at recruiting more than 100 young people to provide outreach and technical assistance for farmers looking to implement conservation practices.
EPA wants to give growers credit for implementing Natural Resources Conservation Service practices as part of the agency’s effort to protect endangered species.
The European Union appears ready to facilitate approval of gene-edited crops and usher in a new era on the continent, one where plants created using “new genomic techniques” (NGTs) are no longer substantially barred from production.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has decided to withdraw a legislative proposal that sought a big reduction in pesticide use on the continent.
A federal judge has vacated 2020 registrations of dicamba, a herbicide that has been embroiled in controversy ever since it was first approved in 2016 because of the off-target damage it has caused.
Producers of renewable diesel and biodiesel are facing a “serious headwind” after the Environmental Protection Agency set usage mandates so low that they’re restraining demand for the biofuels, according to Donnell Rehagen, CEO of Clean Fuels Alliance America.
A Georgia man who used Roundup for decades won his case against Monsanto Monday when a federal appeals court found that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act did not preempt his state tort law claims that the company failed to warn him of the dangers of using the product.
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