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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, December 27, 2024
This is National Farmers Market Week (Aug. 7-13), a great time to visit a farmers market and celebrate your local farmers, ranchers and food producers.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2016 - Bucking local opposition, CME Group Inc. will add a seasonal discount of $1.50 per hundredweight on live cattle tendered to its Worthing, S.D., delivery point for the October 2017 live cattle futures contract.
Dairy producers will receive $11.2 million in federal payments because of tightening margins in May and June, but only a small amount of production nationwide will qualify for the subsidies.
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The U.S. Wheat Associates is hopeful there will be no business lost and only minor trade delays after a Washington state farmer found 22 unapproved genetically modified plants growing in a field last week, a USW spokesman said.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2016 A federal appeals court will hear arguments for a second time on whether FDA should release detailed information on egg production in Texas. And this time around, the result could be different.
At least fifteen states have filed lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to try and block the agency s rule on methane emissions in the oil patch.
A solar cell that converts atmospheric carbon dioxide directly into usable hydrocarbon fuel cheaply and efficiently and uses only sunlight for energy has been engineered by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The technology could be a game-c
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) plans to conduct its upcoming sale of oil and gas leases off the Texas coast for the first time over the internet, saying the process will be more efficient and the sales more transparent than in the past.
The U.S. and Mexico say they intend to conclude a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement by the end of 2016. The plan was announced following a White House meeting between President Obama and President Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico on July 22.
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