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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Lawyers on both sides of a dispute over corn shipments rejected by China are sparring over where and how the litigation should proceed, meaning that any resolution could be years away.
Leaders of the North American Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance (NACSAA) told policy makers and others attending the international climate talks in Paris today that farming can provide impactful and measurable contributions to global efforts to reverse climate change.
In October 2013, the Produce Marketing Association and the Partnership for a Healthier America (the non-profit arm of first lady Michelle Obama@s @Let@s Move!@ campaign) announced a collaboration with an unlikely organization: the Sesame Street Workshop.
The USDA today unveiled a new report warning that global warming will continue to cut agricultural production in the U.S. and around the world and reverse the recent trend of rising food security in some of the poorest countries.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday finished one chapter of drama surrounding the Renewable Fuel Standard, only to likely begin another as potential lawsuits loom.
After three weeks of negotiations, a conference committee has agreed on final language of a bill to reauthorize federal highway funding through FY 2020, following more than 30 short-term extensions of the program.
Congressional leaders are using a compromise highway bill to reverse a $3 billion cut to crop insurers that was included in the two-year budget agreement.
The eyes of the world will be on Paris again this week, but for other reasons beyond terrorism. President Obama and 150 or so other world leaders are gathering in the French capital to try to forge a binding agreement to slow global warming.
Congress is headed toward another last-minute, end-of-the-year renewal of expired tax breaks, with House leaders continuing to push for making some of them permanent. Congress is set to adjourn for the year on Dec. 18, and one of the items on a long to-do li