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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, January 07, 2025
Farming, food processing and distribution are playing a major role in a community revitalization program designed to lift people out of poverty and reduce crime in special Promise Zones across the country, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack said Monday.
WASHINGTON, June 6, 2016 - The latest effort to reauthorize glyphosate for use in Europe failed Monday when a European Commission committee could not muster a qualified majority to temporarily extend approval of the active ingredient used in Monsanto s Roundup.
A ship carrying Chinese catfish to the U.S. retreated to China rather than allow its cargo to undergo inspection by USDA s Food Safety and Inspection Service, according to U.S. government and industry officials.
WASHINGTON, June 3, 2016 - EPA@s decision to cancel the registrations of flubendiamide, marketed by Bayer's Crop Science Division as Belt, has been upheld by an agency administrative law judge (ALJ).
On May 19, the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry & Nutrition took the Farm Credit System to task for its history of unacceptable business practices, only six months after the House Committee on Agriculture did the same. It had been some years since the Hous
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2016 - An EPA draft document assessing the ecological risks of atrazine that was mistakenly posted online a month ago has now been officially released. The content and conclusions of the 520-page report, which is stuffed with nearly 200 tables and maps&#
Citing Ðan emerging farm lending crisis,Ð eight national farm and financial organizations are urging Congress to increase funding for federally assisted farm operating loans in the fiscal year 2017 agricultural appropriations bill. Lawmakers are expected to debate and vote on tha
The agribusiness sectors of Cuba and the United States could both stand to learn a little from the other country, Cuba s agriculture minister said Thursday in Washington.
The Commodities Future Trading Commission has responded to the concerns of agribusiness by loosening its restrictions on the type of hedging strategies that can be exempted from position limits.
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