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OSHA worker heat standard proposal moves forward

05/22/24 6:22 AM By Steve Davies

Hotter temperatures during the summer are leading the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to develop a heat standard for worker safety that OSHA has been working on since 2021.

Daybreak May 21: Vilsack announces CCC-funded trade grants

05/21/24 10:00 AM By Steve Davies, Rebekah Alvey, Philip Brasher, and Noah Wicks

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is announcing the first $300 million in awards to commodity groups today under a $1.2 billion trade promotion initiative he’s funding through his Commodity Credit Corporation spending authority.

Daybreak May 20: CBO pushes back on critical farm bill funding issue

05/20/24 10:00 AM By Steve Davies, Philip Brasher, and Noah Wicks

House Ag Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., is moving ahead with votes on his farm bill this week despite a funding gap for the sweeteners to commodity programs and crop insurance.

Daybreak May 17: Farm bill text due out today

05/17/24 10:00 AM By Steve Davies, Rebekah Alvey, and Philip Brasher

The House Agriculture Committee is expected to release the text of its draft farm bill as soon as this morning.

Cooking burgers properly kills H5N1, USDA says

Department stresses that no H5N1 has been found in retail samples

05/16/24 2:48 PM By Steve Davies

USDA says it’s confident that your hamburger is safe to eat, announcing results of tests showing that cooking patties to an internal temperature of 145 or 160 degrees – medium and well-done – killed the H5N1 virus.

Daybreak May 16: House Dems stay unified on farm bill

05/16/24 10:47 AM By Steve Davies, Philip Brasher, Noah Wicks, and Rebekah Alvey

Democratic members of the House Agriculture Committee met with Senate Ag Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Wednesday afternoon and left reiterating concerns about the GOP farm bill proposal.

Renewable fuels industry cheers D.C. Circuit opinion upholding 2020-2022 volume obligations

05/15/24 1:14 PM By Steve Davies

The renewable fuels industry is welcoming a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding EPA’s renewable fuel volume obligations for 2020-2022, including a 250-million-gallon supplemental volume requirement for 2022 that the agency added to comply with a previous decision from the same court.

Daybreak May 15: GOP farm bill target says Republicans need to ‘work in bipartisan way’

05/15/24 10:00 AM By Steve Davies, Rebekah Alvey, Philip Brasher, and Noah Wicks

One of the most vulnerable Democrats on the House Ag Committee is showing little sign that she’ll back the GOP farm bill the panel will consider next week.

Rural electric co-ops sue to stop EPA power plant regulations

Carbon capture and sequestration still unproven, group says

05/15/24 6:15 AM By Steve Davies

EPA’s new power plant rule relies heavily on carbon capture and sequestration to meet stringent new carbon dioxide reduction requirements, but rural electric cooperatives and 23 states say it’s unproven and are fighting in court to get it stopped.

Bayer earnings drop as volume, prices of crop protection products decline

05/14/24 10:27 AM By Steve Davies

Bayer’s earnings declined in the first quarter of 2024 as the company reported lower sales in crop protection, including a significant decline in the value of glyphosate-based product sales.

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December 15, 2024

Open Mic: Duane Highley, CEO, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association

This week’s Open Mic guest is Duane Highley, CEO of Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association. This western cooperative is embracing the growing need for electric power among its one million customers and 200,000 square miles of challenging terrain with an “all of the above” approach to power generation. Highley says the cooperative is utilizing advanced battery technology to add wind and solar generation to the base load capacity of the system. At the state and federal level, Highley says rural cooperatives need faster permitting, less regulatory red tape, and better access to funds to assist in generating and delivering power to rural America.

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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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