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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, January 26, 2025
The arrival of the Food and Drug Administration s 800 pages of new regulations on how producers should grow and harvest fresh produce is generating only a smattering of groans and complaints from the farm sector.
Members of the NTCA-Rural Broadband Association gathered with government officials and a set of lawmakers last Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol to discuss existing interdependencies between urban and rural areas and how expanding broadband access in rural America is critical to the succes
Having a dialogue about global food security is nothing new, but two Cornell food policy and economics experts say academics and the media are simply having the wrong conversation.
A bipartisan group of nine U.S. senators is urging the conference committee handling the surface transportation bill to make sure the final bill allows bulk milk trucks to carry their cargo without being forced to offload portions of their load at state borders. The senators said that
China has committed to accelerating its review of U.S. GMOs, a move that would smooth trade in biotech crops, Obama administration officials said after an annual bilateral meeting on trade issues.
In the latest twist of a long-running legal battle, biotech giant Syngenta says grain companies have only themselves to blame for the market share lost in China over shipments that contained unapproved corn varieties.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a fast-growing, genetically engineered salmon for commercial sale, making it the first biotech animal cleared for human consumption.
�After an exhaustive and rigorous scientific review, FDA has arrived at
The sugar industry and makers of high fructose corn syrup have settled a bitter court battle that had been raging for four and a half years. The terms of the settlement in a California federal court were not disclosed.
Former agriculture secretaries who have served presidents going back nearly 35 years endorsed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, saying trade agreement should boost U.S. farm exports significantly. In a letter released by the Agriculture Department, the seven former secretaries
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