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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, December 29, 2024
A landmark bill mandating disclosure of genetically engineered food ingredients should be headed to President Obama`s desk by the end of the week. The House is expected to give final congressional approval to the Senate-passed legislation on Thursday.
Conversations directly relating to agriculture at next week`s Republican National Convention in Cleveland are expected to be much like the number of delegates with direct ties to farming and ranching: few and far between.
The United Kingdom`s decision to pull out of the European Union may have major impacts for both the U.K. and the remaining EU members but isn`t likely to have significant effects on the United States or other countries, three experts said here today.
A major item of business for both the Democratic and Republican conventions will be to approve their party platforms, documents that are supposed to explain the party`s positions and help give direction to the candidates` campaigns.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission`s efforts to regulate algorithmic trading fall short of practical rulemaking, a panel of experts told the House Agriculture Committee on Wednesday.
Starting a new $200 million non-profit foundation from scratch can be a daunting challenge, especially when it involves selecting board members, hiring staff and organizing to address crucial agricultural research needs ` while leveraging other public and private sector resourc
A bipartisan group of five U.S. senators has formed the Senate Broadband Caucus to focus on strengthening broadband infrastructure and deployment across the country.
A spate of legislative progress on Capitol Hill has farm groups and forces opposed to the half-century old Cuban embargo optimistic that one of the last major barriers to increasing U.S. agricultural trade ties with the communist nation will soon fall away.
When the Environmental Protection Agency proposed the 2017 Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs) in May, EPA came agonizingly close to a statutory target set by Congress. The proposal called for 18.8 billion gallons of total renewable fuel to be blended with conventional fuels
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