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Agri-Pulse Daybreak for April 25, 2016

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Japan Diet, TPP, TTIP, House Education and the workforce Committee, Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, Community Eligibility Provision,National Organic Standards Board, hydroponics, Organic trade Association
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Farm Bureau 'waving flag' on labor shortage

The head of the American Farm Bureau Federation says agriculture producers across the country need to @wave a flag@ to alert government officials to a possible crisis caused by delays in processing visas for foreign workers who tend and harvest America@s food crops.
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Agri-Pulse Daybreak for April 22, 2016

Earth Day, Secretary of State John Kerry, Paris Climate Agreement, President Obama, Senator Jim Inhofe, USDA Undersecretary Lisa Mensah, EPA Scientific Advisory Panel, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Dow AgroSciences, Syngenta
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Vilsack: Hill opposition won't slow GIPSA rule

The USDA continues to move aggressively to finish work on a rule that would establish new regulations under the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) on poultry and livestock marketing practices despite efforts on Capitol Hill to block it, Agriculture Secr
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Florida biotech advocate gets CAST communications honor

Kevin M. Folta, a University of Florida molecular biologist who specializes in better strawberries but who became the target of anti-biotech crusaders for articulating the benefits of biotechnology, is the 2016 winner of the annual Borlaug CAST Communications Award by the Council o
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Vilsack to attend G-7 meeting with TPP on his mind

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack will be in Japan this weekend to meet with agriculture ministers from the G-7 group of major industrialized nations. But, in an exclusive interview with Agri-Pulse, Vilsack says a lot of his time will be devoted to keeping the Trans-Pacific Partne
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Anti-WOTUS measure fails in Senate

Senate Democrats again successfully protected the Obama administration€s embattled Clean Water Act rule, defeating a GOP attempt to stop the measure the measure from being implemented should it survive court challenges. A 56-42 vote on an amendment to block the €waters of the
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