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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
The biofuel industry is eagerly awaiting the Biden administration’s update of a model that will be used to measure the carbon intensity of sustainable aviation feedstocks and determine their eligibility for a valuable new tax incentives. But industry officials caution that the update is only one in several policy actions that will be needed to get SAF production off the ground.
Wisconsin Towns Association director Mike Koles had a clear message as he sat before a panel of House lawmakers last week: America’s rural roads, bridges and culverts are deteriorating.
Colombia is once again accepting U.S. exports of poultry and egg products after shutting off access to their market last summer due to concerns about Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.
The Port of Baltimore, a significant shipping point for U.S. sugar imports, suspended traffic Tuesday after a container ship slammed into and collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge, shutting the main channel leading into the Chesapeake Bay.
Large grocery store firms used their size to get a leg up on their smaller competitors as the pandemic disrupted supply chains, the Federal Trade Commission concluded in a report issued today.
The Environmental Protection Agency is giving automakers more flexibility to cut tailpipe emissions from light- and medium-duty vehicles than the agency proposed last year, allowing use of a variety of machines to achieve greenhouse gas reductions starting with model year 2027.
It’s long been a point of pride in American agriculture that the United States exported more than it imported in farm commodities, but that surplus has vanished and may not be coming back anytime soon.
American beef cattle are getting better quality grades than they used to, and some industry leaders think it's time to change the grading system to reflect that.
The latest “Feeding the Economy” report shows that the food and agriculture sector was responsible in 2023 for $9.6 trillion of U.S. economic activity – $1 trillion more than in 2022.
Two of the nation's largest meatpackers have agreed to pay a combined $127.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over allegations that they participated in a conspiracy to lower meat industry wages.