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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, November 29, 2024
Lawmakers are calling on the Trump administration to finalize long-stalled regulations that would prevent dairies from moving cows between organic and conventional herds.
The average American does not meet the dietary guidelines set forth by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, but a recent analysis shows that cost should not be a major factor.
On the heels of the Department of Agriculture submitting a rewrite of rules to address competition in livestock markets, a group of producers took to Washington Tuesday to make their case for improved safeguards in the new rulemaking.
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved the insecticide sulfoxaflor for use on corn, cotton, sorghum and citrus, as well as other crops, the agency announced Friday, saying it had concluded the chemical posed no significant risk to bees and that alternatives to the chemical are worse for the environment.
Advocates of plant-based diets, including several people who claimed they had improved their health significantly by adopting them, showed up in force Thursday to make the case that the federal government should radically modify its nutritional advice.
July reports from the Department of Agriculture offered little surprise to traders, including when USDA stuck with the much-maligned June Acreage report data.
The Agriculture Department is taking another shot at rewriting regulations restricting how meat and poultry processors can treat producers, and familiar battle lines are being redrawn ahead of an anticipated release.
African Swine Fever (ASF) is ravaging the Chinese pork market, a country consuming two-thirds of the world's pork, but efforts are being made by the Chinese government to improve the situation.
The USDA released a report on the current state of the Vesicular Stomatitis Virus on July 3. The report recorded two new cases on properties in Colorado, both equine operations.
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