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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Twenty people have been named to the advisory committee that will help shape the 2025-2030 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, including health equity experts.
The Department of Agriculture has unveiled new regulations designed to protect the integrity of USDA’s organic seal and deter and detect organic fraud throughout the supply chain.
Several key House committees will be chaired in the coming Congress by Republican lawmakers who represent districts with significant farm production or have an agricultural background themselves.
Industry analysts say consumers should not expect egg prices to return to lower levels due to the sustained impact of the highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak, which is proving worse than the one experienced in 2014-15.
Farmers across the central and southern Plains are drawing down the underground reserves they have long relied on to irrigate their corn, soybeans, cotton and wheat. A Kansas state agency wants to do something about the problem and is calling for that state to end a policy of "planned depletion.
Speakers at a recent White House listening session pleaded with the Biden administration to modernize U.S. regulatory oversight of gene-edited plant products to compete with other countries that have streamlined processes allowing for quicker approval.
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is nearing the completion of a five-year pilot surveillance program to monitor antimicrobial resistance and will establish a permanent surveillance program.
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