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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, November 05, 2024
The Department of Agriculture plans to withdraw another Obama administration regulation impacting the livestock industry, this time choosing to pull language setting animal welfare standards in organic agriculture.
A panel of witnesses spoke to the Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday and all essentially delivered the same message: the current defense against pests, pathogens, and biosecurity threats to the food system needs work.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue made clear Tuesday that he expects the congressional agriculture committees to continue their traditional lead role in developing next year’s farm bill with USDA taking on a supportive function.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said he expects efforts to reform the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program next year to focus on restricting the time that able-bodied adults without dependents can keep receiving benefits.
President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to pull the U.S. out of the North American Free Trade Agreement have kept the U.S. ag sector on edge for months, and farm sector leaders are expressing concern that Trump may have no intention of allowing the current NAFTA negotiations to succeed.
Missouri and a group of allied states have launched another legal battle to get rid of California’s egg-marketing regulations, only this time they’ve filed directly with the Supreme Court and with more ammunition.
When you think of the challenges farmers face finding good workers, the first areas that come to mind probably are along one of the U.S. coasts. But the problem is also affecting the nation’s Heartland, where states like Iowa are facing an ever-worsening labor shortage.
The National Pork Board (NPB) is pointing to the FDA’s recent Report on Antimicrobials Sold or Distributed for Use in Food Producing Animals as evidence that the nation’s 60,000 pig farmers are doing what’s right on the farm for people, pigs and the planet when it comes to their commitment to antibiotic stewardship.
USDA has cleared the state of Arizona to test a program aimed at limiting fraud and reducing illegal trafficking of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program electronic benefit (EBT) cards.
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