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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Ongoing partisan battles over nutrition assistance and Inflation Reduction Act funding have received all the attention but there are plenty of other policy disagreements in the approaches that leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture committees are taking on a new farm bill.
Hues of pink and green lit up night skies as far south as Arkansas this weekend as the earth experienced the largest geomagnetic storms it has seen in nearly 20 years.
In November 2022, the Food and Drug Administration finalized a rule under the Food Safety Modernization Act that requires companies to keep additional records for some foods to better trace foodborne illness outbreaks.
EPA’s new power plant rule relies heavily on carbon capture and sequestration to meet stringent new carbon dioxide reduction requirements, but rural electric cooperatives and 23 states say it’s unproven and are fighting in court to get it stopped.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has been minimizing concerns that the existing level of foreign ownership of American farmland is a serious risk, saying the bigger issue is farmland being scooped up by “billionaires and Wall Street.”
The organic industry continued to grow in 2023 across several products, according the Organic Trade Association, which released the results of its 2024 Organic Industry and Consumer Survey to kick off Organic Week in Washington on Tuesday.
North American sales of some tractors have increased this year from 2023 levels while total farm tractors saw a small decline, according to the latest monthly data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers.
Bill Tomson, Agri-Pulse’s senior trade editor who was a career-long veteran of agriculture and food policy coverage, has died after a courageous battle with cancer.
Bayer’s earnings declined in the first quarter of 2024 as the company reported lower sales in crop protection, including a significant decline in the value of glyphosate-based product sales.