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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, December 30, 2024
Lactating dairy cattle scheduled to move from one state to another will first have to be tested for the presence of the H5N1 virus, according to a USDA order issued Wednesday.
Dairy cattle transported from Texas have been implicated in the spread of the H5N1, or bird flu, virus found in at least four of the seven states outside of Texas that have reported infections, according to states where H5N1 has been found.
President Biden and members of his cabinet, including Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, are fanning out across the country to promote the administration’s environmental record.
EPA is announcing today that it’s issuing a waiver to allow the use of E15 nationwide again this summer, sources tell Agri-Pulse. The agency had previously issued such waivers for 2022 and 2023.
The Bureau of Land Management has finalized a rule that will allow conservation leases on its land by giving land protection and restoration equal footing with grazing, energy development and other long-standing uses of the 245 million acres the agency controls.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai faced another panel of lawmakers frustrated by the Biden administration's trade policies, which do not involve any efforts to negotiate long-term free-trade agreements.
The Environmental Protection Agency is trying to make its endangered species herbicide strategy easier for growers to implement by adding more conservation practices and using better maps.
