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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, December 01, 2024
Meatpacking giant JBS USA is bringing its sanitation work in-house after one of its former contractors, Packers Sanitation Services Inc., was fined by the Labor Department for child labor violations.
A bipartisan measure being introduced today in the House and Senate would increase the number of technical service advisers available to help farmers take advantage of USDA conservation programs.
Huanglongbing – also known as Citrus Greening Disease – has caused Florida’s orange production to decline by nearly 90% since 2005, allowing California to overtake the country’s top-producing citrus state.
Controlled environment agriculture leaders see legislative updates and regulatory changes as key ways to help the expanding industry deliver local, healthy foods that also offer nutritional, environmental and economic benefits.
Environmental claims, including those related to carbon reductions, need to be better defined and policed, commenters told the Federal Trade Commission as it considers revisions to guidance long used by industry.
The National Milk Producers Federation on Monday petitioned USDA on Monday to consider a comprehensive proposal to overhaul the way milk is priced under federal milk marketing orders.
A key House lawmaker defended the tightening of work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as a way to reduce federal spending, in an interview on Agri-Pulse Newsmakers.
A key House Republican wants to reinstate a restriction on USDA’s use of its Commodity Credit Corp. Rep. Andy Harris, who chairs the House Ag Appropriations Subcommittee, claims Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack misused the CCC to fund the $3 billion Partnerships in Climate-Smart Commodities initiative.
The World Bank projects that agriculturalcommodity priceswill drop 7% this year and likely fall again in 2024, providing some relief from global food inflation.
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