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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, November 06, 2024
Rice producers wanting to enhance current conservation efforts have until March 2 to apply for a special Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) led by the USA Rice-Ducks Unlimited Rice Stewardship Partnership.
Republican leaders are rushing to pass another short-term spending bill to keep the government funded into March, and the prospects for moving a new farm bill by early spring could hinge on whether some cotton and dairy provisions get thrown into the spending measure.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered a halt to annual payments from the National Pork Board to the National Pork Producers Council for trademarks including “The Other White Meat.”
Is that imported food you're buying for your family safe? FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb says his agency is taking steps to make sure those foods meet the same safety standards as those in the U.S.
Historically, new farm bills have not been approved in a timely fashion and often expire before a new one is written. But both Agriculture Committee chairmen are committed to aggressive timelines in 2018.
Whether it’s the FDA tightening control over produce safety as it implements the Food Safety Modernization Act or the Interior Department’s policies on cattle grazing, farmers and ranchers can get caught up in complex regulations written by agencies that often don’t understand agriculture the way USDA does.
School nutrition advocates are offering differing views of a USDA proposal to relax sodium, milk and whole grain requirements for students' meals, in comments submitted to the department on Monday.
In writing the five-year 2018 farm bill, Congress could add new provisions to support aquaculture, with the added benefit of boosting soybean growers’ income, according to testimony at a Senate hearing Tuesday.
The venture capital arm of Tyson Foods has made an investment in a cultured meat company, a move the company touted as “an example of Tyson Foods’ commitment to explore innovative, new ways of meeting growing global demand for protein.”
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