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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, August 31, 2024
WASHINGTON, May 4, 2016 @ Food and Drug Administration and Canadian food authorities will cooperate on a range of food safety issues after agreeing that their food safety systems are comparable.
Dozens of farm groups are backing Bayer CropScience@s fight to prevent EPA from canceling the registrations of an insecticide used on a wide variety of crops across the country, including soybeans, almonds, cotton, sunflowers and alfalfa.
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, John Kasich, NAFTA, Trade, Bernie Sanders, Todd Young, Marlin Stutzman, Dan Coats, Jackie Walorski, Conservation Compliance, NRCS, Friends of the Earth, International Agency for Research on Cancer, EPA
Glyphosate, the world�s most heavily used herbicide, is unlikely to cause cancer in humans, the Environmental Protection Agency has concluded.
Or has it?
A $9.3 billion bill authorizing improvements to the nation`s navigation and drinking water infrastructure easily cleared the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today.
EPA received the brunt of the criticism from farm group representatives at a House Agriculture subcommittee hearing today focusing on the factors affecting the cost of producing the nation`s food.
Water Development Resources Development Act, Chairman Pat Roberts, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Senator John Hoeven, Dannon, Animal welfare, Donald Trump, GMO feed, Chairman Mike Conaway, John Gordley
The end of chlorpyrifos on farms? Not yet. An epidemiological study that linked chlorpyrifos exposure to neurodevelopmental effects in children may not be enough to support EPAs proposed revocation of tolerances for the widely used organophosphate insecticide.
The American Soybean Association is touting a new study that finds a lack of nectar sources, habitat fragmentation, and changing weather patterns are the primary contributors to a decline in monarch butterfly populations.
Children and adults who receive meals as part of the National Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) will get more whole grains and fruits and vegetables, and less added sugars and solid fats, under changes announced today by USDA@s Food and Nutrition Service.