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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, January 18, 2025
The fight resumes over school nutrition standards in Washington this week, with the School Nutrition Association battling Agriculture Secretary Vilsack and First Lady Michelle Obama
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not keeping pace with a mandate that requires its overseas offices to inspect foreign food facilities, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., announced Monday that she will retire at the end of the 114th Congress in 2017, ending the longest congressional career of any woman in history.
Sodium limits for schools would be frozen at their current limits and a whole grain requirement would be cut in half under proposed legislation that school nutrition directors will be lobbying Congress this week to pass.
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) today jointly urged Congress to enact new Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) legislation, saying it is crucial to securing well-negotiated trade agreements.
WASHINGTON, March 1, 2015 0 Does rural America still pack the same political punch it did in years gone by? With fewer farmers feeding more people, farmland shrinking and the sons and daughters of the country migrating to the city, is there a disconnect between farmers,
A bipartisan group of former U.S. agriculture secretaries going back to the Carter administration is urging Congress to pass fast-track trade promotion authority (TPA)
House ag appropriators expressed support as they heard Jason Weller, chief of the USDA0s Natural Resources Conservation Service0s (NRCS), explain the agency0s $4.4 billion budget proposal for fiscal 2016.
USDA is extending the deadline for producers to update their base yields or reallocate their base acres to March 31, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said. The original deadline was today.
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