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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, November 25, 2024
WASHINGTON, August 2, 2017 - The U.S. dairy sector is fighting harder than ever on several fronts to halt the European Union’s global efforts to block cheese producers in other countries from using names like Roquefort, Asiago and Gorgonzola on the products they export.
INDIANA, August 2, 2017 - Concepts like indoor farming, controlled environment agriculture (CEA), the vertical farm, and aeroponics are turning year-round, locally grown produce into commercial reality.
WASHINGTON, August 2, 2017 - The Food and Drug Administration has approved a qualified health claim linking consumption of soybean oil to reduced risk of coronary heart disease.
WASHINGTON, August 2, 2017 - USDA’s Risk Management Agency will make crop insurance available to beekeepers in 19 additional states, meaning it will now be available in all contiguous 48 states.
WASHINGTON, July 31, 2017 – The eight members of the House Agriculture Committee who traveled to San Angelo, Texas, for the panel’s second farm bill listening session heard from a wide variety of farmers Monday, but it was the cotton producers who dominated the event with pleas for more assistance.
WASHINGTON, July 31, 2017 - For the past 10 years, The Cheesecake Factory has taken home at least one of the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s Xtreme Eating Awards. This year is no different as the California-based restaurant chain earned not one, but two of the “dishonors.”
WASHINGTON, July 30, 2017 - The House Agriculture Committee goes on the road this week to hold a trio of listening sessions as lawmakers prepare to write a new farm bill later this year or early in 2018.
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2017 – Mexico may talk about getting its grains from countries other than the United States, but Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said today that he doesn’t think the country is serious.
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2017 – Japanese purchases of U.S. beef are about to be subject to a 50 percent tariff after imports in the three-month period ending June 30 triggered a “safeguard” mechanism.
WASHINGTON, July 27, 2017 - A trio of nominees to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission pledged to protect the ability of farmers and ranchers to hedge against volatility in the commodity markets.
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