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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, August 01, 2024
President Barack Obama, Vietnam, Japan, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Translantic Trade and Investment Partnership, Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety Al Almanza, Wally Adeyemo, U.S. Wheat Associates, National Corn Growers Association, Chris Novak
The Trans-Pacific Partnership would reduce the U.S. trade deficit and create jobs throughout the country, but some of the biggest gains would be for the agriculture sector, according to a U.S. International Trade Commission report released Wednesday evening.
The Zika virus doesn�t present a direct threat to agriculture, but several U.S. farm and food groups are united in their support of combating the disease with genetically engineered mosquitoes.
Donald Trump, Chairman Mike Conaway, Kate English, WOTUS, Richard Ebert, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Senator Jerry Moran, Food and Drug Admnistration, Zika Virus, NASDA, Zika virus, Senator Chuck Grassley
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2016 - USDA announced today that it is allowing an extra 200,000 short tons of cane sugar imports to satisfy the demand of food companies that are shunning beet sugar because it is produced mostly from genetically modified seeds.
Chairman Mike Conaway, Representative Collin Peterson, SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Chairman Jerry Moran, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator Debbie Stabenow
Senate Appropriations Committee, GMO Labeling Bill, Senator Debbie Stabenow, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway, Donald Trump, Representative Steve Chabot, Representative Jeb Hensarling, Representiative Candice Miller
USDAàs proposed rule to overhaul retailer requirements for its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program took a beating today by both Republicans and Democrats at a House Agriculture Committee hearing.
If USDA implements its proposed rule overhauling retailer requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), tens of thousands of convenience stores would stop accepting the government benefits once known as food stamps, the National Association of Convenience S
U.S. pork exports to China are rising sharply and thereàs no sign of a slowdown anytime soon. Exporters shipped about $72 million worth of pork to China in just the first three months of this year, a 250 percent increase from the same period in 2015, according to data