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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
The Senate Agriculture Committee scheduled a Nov. 28 hearing on three nominations for top positions at USDA: Mindy Brashears to be undersecretary for food safety; Naomi Earp, to be assistant secretary for civil rights; and Scott Hutchins, to be the department's chief scientist.
Sen. Chuck Grassley says he’ll give up his chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee to lead the Finance panel when the 116th Congress convenes in January.
In what they are calling a “first-of-its-kind partnership,” the Environmental Defense Fund and the National Corn Growers Association are joining forces to help farmers and rural communities meet the pressing challenge of protecting the environment while maximizing productivity and profit.
According to a new government report, E.coli 0157 illnesses during the 1998-2016 time period were most often linked to vegetable row crops and beef while salmonella illnesses came from a wide variety of sources.
Dawn Stump, a member of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, named Dan Bucsa as her chief of staff and senior policy adviser and Elizabeth Mastrogiacomo as senior counsel.
USDA cut its forecasts for soybean exports for the current marketing year to 1.9 billion bushels, down 160 million bushels from the October projection, citing lower imports from China, which is engaged in tit-for-tar tariff war with the U.S.
The U.S. has joined a dozen other World Trade Organization countries to support policies that enable agricultural innovation, including genome editing.
