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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, November 23, 2024
The Biden administration is expected to announce key updates this week to its carbon-intensity scoring for sustainable aviation fuel this week, while lawmakers are struggling to break a partisan impasse over a new farm bill that Republicans are determined to move through the House Ag Committee in May.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has confirmed that the H5N1 virus has been found in a dairy herd in Colorado, the ninth state so far, the state's department of agriculture said Friday.
The Labor Department has finalized a series of new protections for H-2A employees, including a right to participate in advocacy efforts over working conditions and restrictions on when workers can be fired for cause. A leading industry group denounced the regulations as "offensive" and "developed in bad faith."
Lactating dairy cattle scheduled to move from one state to another will first have to be tested for the presence of the H5N1 virus, according to a USDA order issued Wednesday.
A bill in the Legislature proposes to ease agricultural overtime rules after a UC Berkeley study found farmworkers have been earning and working less since the state enacted AB 1066 in 2016.
UC-Riverside Nematologist Simon "Niels" Groen plans to dig deeper into how nematodes invade humans, livestock and plants, thanks a a large grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Chris Adamo is now the head of global sustainability impact and B Corp at Danone. He previously was the vice president of public affairs and regenerative agriculture policy.
Dairy cattle transported from Texas have been implicated in the spread of the H5N1, or bird flu, virus found in at least four of the seven states outside of Texas that have reported infections, according to states where H5N1 has been found.
Farm groups are organizing to defeat a ballot measure that could make Sonoma County the first county in the nation to ban concentrated animal feeding operations by popular vote.
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