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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Lawmakers are raising concerns that the avian influenza outbreak could threaten supplies of human vaccines and possibly spread to people through swine.
USDA°s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has finalized a rule that will allow regions of Argentina and Brazil to export fresh beef into the U.S., drawing protests from a prominent congressional food safety critic as well as the National Cattlemen°s Be
President Obama signed into law a trade promotion bill that ensures new agreements can get through Congress without risk of amendment, but he warned that it would take "tough negotiations" to wrap up the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership,
Forrest Roberts has announced that he will resign as head the National Cattlemen°s Beef Association at the end of July, NCBA said in a release Monday afternoon.
The Obama administration°s new definition of the °waters of the United States° regulated by the Clean Water Act will be formally published on Monday and will take effect Aug. 28. The administration publicly released the final WOTUS rule in May but waited until Friday, af
House Republicans today introduced a bill that they say would rebalance the water needs of drought-plagued California between protected fish species and the farm communities and cities and towns that are running dry.
An estimated 66.9 million hogs and pigs were being raised in the U.S. on June 1, up 9 percent from a year earlier and up slightly from March 1, USDA said today in a quarterly report, more indication that the U.S. pork industry has recovered from the Porcine Epidemic
A coalition of more than a dozen farm organizations, international development groups and agriculture-related foundations sent a letter today to congressional committees calling for a coordinated approach from the federal government to meeting global food security needs.
The chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research, says that the success of USDA s marketing programs indicate a proposed non-GMO certification program could be a viable solution for consumers wanting to avoid genetically engineere
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