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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Facebook recently announced plans to build a new data center – its sixth in the United States – south of Omaha, Nebraska, and power the facility solely through wind-generated electricity.
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2017 - As President Donald Trump weighs the merits of keeping the United States in the Paris Agreement, the National Farmers Union (NFU) is urging the administration to maintain U.S. commitments ...
SALEM, OR, April 12, 2017 - Counties and other local government bodies in Oregon could create GMO-free zones under legislation introduced in the state House and Senate.
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2017 - International trade isn’t a topic commonly paired with the U.S. farm credit system, but it has increasingly become one of the top issues that bankers and banking representatives are bringing up with lawmakers and whoever else will listen.
ARLINGTON, VA, April 12, 2017 - EPA pesticide officials reassured the crop protection industry last week that despite a slowdown in regulatory decisions caused by the transition to a new administration, they’re still striving to meet statutory deadlines for pesticide registration decisions.
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2017 - When President Donald Trump followed through on campaign promises with his Jan. 23 executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it was a sharp blow for the U.S. pork industry.
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2017 - March 31 marked the latest application deadline for grants from a USDA program that offers agricultural producers and rural small businesses the opportunity to purchase ...
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2017 - Both sides found something to be happy about in a federal judge’s ruling last week in a class-action lawsuit seeking damages from lost sales and reduced prices as a result of China’s rejection of corn shipments from the U.S. in November 2013.