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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, January 11, 2025
DuPont, which is planning a merger with Dow Chemical, says it is committed to the state of Iowa, where the companys Pioneer seed operations were founded 90 years ago.
However, a statement issued by DuPont stopped short of saying what would happen to t
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack had been edging toward a tussle with Congress for over a year on fire borrowing budget dilemmas, but he recently raised the stakes when he declared USDA agencies were not going to borrow money this year to pay for 2016 fire season costs
The USDAs Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is working to certify U.S. mills so that they will be able to export rice to China, now that both countries have agreed on a phytosanitary protocol that paves the way for new trade, a USDA official told Agri-Pulse.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and EPA need to tighten their standards for ammonium nitrate, the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) said in its report on the explosion of a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, which obliterated the facility, killed 15 people and cau
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman took to the telephone on Tuesday afternoon to tout the benefits of the Trans-Pacific Partnership as summarized in a recent report from the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). Later, Froman announced a deal that
A new report says that while all member countries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership stand to benefit from the trade agreement, the U.S. has the most to gain.
The nation s capital is digging out of a monster snowstorm that is playing havoc with schedules even as much of official Washington will be focused on Iowa for the last week of campaigning ahead of the Feb. 1 caucuses.
Connie Tipton, president and CEO of the International Dairy Foods Association since January 2004, announced today at IDFA s annual Dairy Forum in Phoenix that she will step down at the end of the year.
The White House Rural Council (WHRC) and its federal collaborators have announced the 27 Local Foods, Local Places (LFLP) partner communities that will receive technical assistance during 2016 as they work to increase economic opportunities for local farmers and acces
Members of some U.S. industry-funded checkoff groups sometimes feel like Rodney Dangerfield on Capitol Hill. They just don�t get any respect and their funding sources are often misunderstood.
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