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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, August 19, 2024
Does food security affect national security? Experts at a global food security summit debated the question last week at Virginia's George Mason University.
Milk producers such as Jerry Messer say they’ve had it with many food companies’ marketing practices, such as labeling foods in ways that disparage GMOs or using the term “milk” for plant-based beverages.
A crew from Jimmy Kimmel Live went to farmers markets in 2014 to ask regular citizens about genetic engineering. Each person was asked, “What is a GMO?”
You have only about 10 days left to let the National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) know your suggestions about how to make investments in agricultural sciences and establish priorities for research, education and extension.
Republicans narrowly pushed a tax bill through the House Thursday that would slash corporate and individual taxes while preserving and even expanding key benefits for farms.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is moving ahead with some controversial reorganization moves just a few weeks after hitting the pause button so they could be discussed further.
Some 66 commodity groups and trade organizations will be dividing nearly $174 million to promote their products overseas under Market Access Program (MAP) allocations announced by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service for the 2018 fiscal year.
Warning of widespread impacts throughout the food supply chain, wheat growers are spearheading a lawsuit against California for listing glyphosate as a carcinogen under the state’s Proposition 65 law, which requires labeling of ingredients “known to the state to cause cancer.”
Opponents of industry mergers and modern farming techniques thought they had the perfect partners in the Obama Administration to more strictly enforce anti-trust laws and stop industry consolidation in agriculture. That didn’t happen.
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