Articles by Steve Davies

GAO: USDA needs more consistent checkoff oversight

11/29/17 6:30 AM By Steve Davies

The Agricultural Marketing Service needs to strengthen its oversight of checkoff programs to ensure consistent and clear methodologies are employed to help evaluate results, the Government Accountability Office says.

Europe approves glyphosate use for five years

11/27/17 2:10 PM By Steve Davies

Germany provided the key swing vote Monday in the European Union's approval of glyphosate for another five years.

EPA gets more time to finalize emissions guidance for animal operations

11/22/17 3:15 PM By Steve Davies

The Environmental Protection Agency has another two months to complete emissions guidance for animal feeding operations (AFOs), courtesy of an order today from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. EPA now has until Jan. 22 to finalize its guidance for AFOs.

FDA gets an earful on what consumers should know about GMOs

11/22/17 6:40 AM By Steve Davies

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?”

Draft bill would smooth path for pesticides

11/22/17 6:35 AM By Steve Davies

A draft bill circulating on Capitol Hill would exempt pesticide registrations from the Endangered Species Act consultation process, which is designed to ensure that the chemicals do not harm endangered species or their habitat.

EPA, Corps seek to extend effective date of WOTUS

11/22/17 6:05 AM By Steve Davies

EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers are proposing to extend the effective date of the 2015 "waters of the U.S." rule for two years in order to eliminate confusion that may arise from a Supreme Court ruling on where the challenges to that rule should be heard.

No sign yet of agreement on moving Senate PRIA bill

11/19/17 7:14 AM By Steve Davies

Democratic senators led by New Mexico's Tom Udall want answers from EPA on chlorpyrifos and farmworker protections from pesticides before they'll agree to let a bill move forward reauthorizing the fee-based pesticide registration system that provides about a third of the funding for EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs.

Perdue issues sweeping reorganization memo

Codex program to trade, GIPSA to AMS

11/15/17 6:24 PM By Steve Davies

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.

Farm groups challenge California cancer listing for glyphosate

11/15/17 2:10 PM By Steve Davies

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.”

More USDA regulations in line for changes, Adcock tells House panel

11/15/17 6:35 AM By Steve Davies

USDA’s regulatory reform officer told Capitol Hill lawmakers Tuesday that the department has identified about 140 regulations as “possible options” for revision or repeal. Although she did not identify them, she said a “significant number” will be published in the fall Unified Regulatory Agenda that should appear any day now, if history is any guide.

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December 22, 2024

Agri-Pulse Open Mic: Jim Sutter, CEO, U.S. Soybean Export Council

This week’s Open Mic guest is Jim Sutter, CEO of the U.S. Soybean Export Council. As trade tensions with China have shifted more of their imports from Brazil, U.S. soybean farmers have successfully diversified their global demand base. Sutter says domestic supplies have higher quality than soybeans from anywhere else in the world and thus prove a better value for customers both in raw beans and in soy products. Sutter says production sustainability is becoming a greater priority in some markets which is a big advantage for U.S. soybean farmers and he sees increases in both global demand and production of oilseeds.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Dec. 20, 2024: Todd Van Hoose on Farm Credit System, farm economy

The Farm Credit System has experienced many changes in recent decades to better support rural America. Todd Van Hoose, retiring president and CEO of the Farm Credit Council, discussed the viability of lenders in 2025 and looked back at a historic farm bill advocacy push. Christy Seyfert will succeed Van Hoose in January.

Then, The Russell Group’s Jessica Schulken and John Weber from Monument Advocacy discuss the potential impacts of DOGE and what influence RFK Jr. may have on the food and agriculture industries.

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