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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, March 01, 2025
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced she is leaving her post after the President delivers his State of the Union address in 2013.
A looming dock strike could affect East and Gulf coast ports and cost American industries – agricultural and otherwise – billions of dollars in lost profits.
Obesity rates among low-income, pre-school aged children may finally be falling, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control wrote in a report released yesterday.
The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) spearheaded a pair of letters to the leaders of the congressional agriculture committees urging that they build upon the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) provisions adopted by the House Agriculture Committee when resuming consideration of a new five-
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., warned the Senate Friday that milk “market chaos will erupt†if Congress fails to stop a permanent 1949 law from taking effect in January, setting off a chain of events that could double the prices of milk and dairy products.
The Food and Drug Administration took a big step today toward commercial approval of salmon genetically engineered to grow faster than its regular counterpart. FDA’s publication of a 158-page environmental assessment and a 5-page “finding of no significant impact†drew the expected howls from peren
Three years after the initial framework, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced a final rule establishing regulations for animal disease traceability (ADT) of U.S. livestock moving interstate.
Rural Americans need new alliances with urban and suburban interests if they are ever to regain the political clout they enjoyed in the past, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce forum in Washington today.
A U.S. District Court judge today threw out a suit by attorneys representing the Waterkeeper Alliance [http://www.waterkeeper.org] against a Maryland family and Perdue Farms
Even as the chances of a farm bill clearing Congress by the end of the year continued to fade, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) urged the House today to take up and approve a five-year farm bill in the short remaining congressional time.
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