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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, November 11, 2024
California’s workplace safety regulator has rejected a petition to allow driverless tractors on farms throughout the state, despite pleas from farm groups to support widescale adoption.
Sammy Duda has been named CEO-elect of DUDA and Robert Verloop has been named executive director and chief executive officer of the California Walnut Board and the California Walnut Commission.
Many farm groups are calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission to exempt agriculture from proposed requirements that corporations start disclosing the greenhouse gas emissions in their supply chains.
The Supreme Court denied a petition from Monsanto Tuesday to review a federal appeals court ruling that found the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act does not preempt state tort-law claims.
The National Pork Producers Council and American Farm Bureau Federation got a boost in their Supreme Court challenge to California’s animal housing law, Proposition 12, with the U.S. government’s filing of a brief supporting the groups.
The Senate Agriculture Committee is expected this week to approve proposals aimed at weakening the market power of meatpackers but have long divided producers.
The Environmental Protection Agency must re-examine its finding that glyphosate is “not likely” to cause cancer in humans, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
House Democrats, struggling to maintain their tenuous control over the House amid soaring food and fuel prices, win passage of a package of bills aimed at promoting competition in the meat sector, reducing fertilizer usage and expanding the use of biofuels.
A coalition of farm and business groups are sounding the alarm for the current water crisis and sharing disappointment with the state's lack of urgency.
The California Air Resources Board is proposing its most ambitious regulation yet with a ban on new gas-powered cars by 2035. But biofuel producers hope to convince state regulators to keep some alternatives to electric cars.
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