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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, January 31, 2025
Two recent court cases, involving crop insurance adjusters, agents and tobacco farmers, indicate that federal courts are doing more to crack down on sometimes elaborate schemes to collect millions in fraudulent crop insurance payouts.
Rumors that the President’s FY 2014 budget will cut the Food for Peace program have been flying for weeks – and Wednesday, senators began to respond.
ARLINGTON, Va., 2013 – More investment in improving global agricultural productivity is necessary in the face of a growing population that requires more
The American Petroleum Institute, the Grocery Manufacturers Association and several other groups filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court today, asking that it reverse a D.C. Circuit Court decision rejecting a challenge to EPA’s grant of partial waivers for use of the ethanol blend, E15.
There’s no crystal ball for the agricultural biotechnology industry, a number of insiders divulged during a Resources for the Future panel on Tuesday in Washington,
The Department of Justice unsealed a 76-count indictment yesterday charging four former officials of the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) and a related company with numerous charges relating to a salmonella outbreak in 2009.
USDA announced Wednesday that the risk status of U.S. cattle for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) may soon be moved from “controlled†to “negligible,†the lowest risk category.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank today announced the appointment of 37 private-sector representatives to the Secretary’s newly re-chartered Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RE&EE) Advisory Committee during the group’s initial meeting at the Department of Commerce
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2013 – The potential market for U.S. organic products in the European Union could be worth about $50 million a year with opportunities in vegetables, fresh fruit, dried fruits
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