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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Consumer activists appealed to Michelle Obama today to support a California ballot initiative requiring labels on foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMO).
Today is the last day the Environmental Protection Agency accepts comments on how it should respond to requests to waive the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
A U.S. District Court has ruled that the American Farm Bureau Federation has a right to join in a lawsuit over the breadth of the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate poultry and livestock farms under the Clean Water Act
The U.S. dairy market can no longer depend on predictable market cycles that were the custom from the 1990s through the mid-2000s, Rabobank’s Food and Agribusiness Research and Advisory group said in an industry note published to clients Wednesday.
U.S. corn production is slightly lowered this month, but down 13 percent from its 2011 levels, while U.S. wheat ending stocks for 2012/13 are lowered 44 million bushels, according to the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) and Crop Production reports released by the USDA
Farmers accelerated corn and soybean harvest further ahead of schedule, according to USDA’s Crop Progress report released Tuesday. As of last week, 69% of the nation’s corn acres are harvested, a full 41 points ahead of the five-year average and 40 points ahead of last year.
As the 2012 Farm Bill continues to flounder in the House, and with the worst drought in decades still fresh in people’s minds, the Crop Insurance Industry announced today a new website that will allow groups to show their support for crop insurance
The food, agriculture and agribusiness industries are transitioning from a view of organic waste as a cost to a viewing it as a potential revenue source, according to a Rabobank report published today.
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