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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, July 14, 2024
House Appropriations Committee, FDA, USDA, biotech crops, biotechnlogy, Vermont GMO labeling, Rep. Andy Harris, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Chairman Mike Conaway, Mexico, Poultry, China, Small Business Administration, Nick Paulson,
Republicans are trying to head off new regulations on poultry and livestock marketing practices as House appropriators debate the Agriculture Department�s fiscal 2017 spending bill this week.
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The Food and Drug Administration would get $3 million to promote understanding and acceptance of agricultural biotechnology to consumers, under a provision in the Houses draft Agriculture appropriations bill for fiscal 2017.
A Republican bill that would provide grain and energy companies with protection from some Dodd-Frank rules faces a dim future in the Senate after Democrats lost a bid to increase funding for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved the CF
Biofuel producers apparently will have to wait until later in the year to find out whether their federal tax incentives are going to continue beyond this year. The industry had hoped senators would include extensions of tax credits for biodiesel and advanced biofuels in a reauthorization bill
Members of Congress are on the verge of passing historic legislation that would enshrine President Obamas $1-billion-a-year Feed the Future initiative into law. The legislation, which the House passed 370-33 Tuesday evening, would require the government to dev
The amount of land planted to genetically engineered crops fell last year for the first time ever, as slumping prices for corn and cotton encouraged U.S. farmers to plant alternative, non-biotech crops such as sorghum, according to an annual global survey.