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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, January 10, 2025
Beginning Monday, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will begin instituting a zero-tolerance policy for six additional strains of E. coli that are responsible for a number of human illnesses.
USDA announced its decision on Farm Service Agency (FSA) county office consolidations proposed in January as part of USDA’s Blueprint for Stronger Service. In total, FSA will consolidate 125 of the 131 offices originally proposed for consolidation.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today denied a Corn Refiners Association (CRA) petition to rename high-fructose corn syrup “corn sugar,†saying the action would confuse U.S. consumers and could even pose a health risk to those suffering from fructose intolerance.
USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) needs to implement more effective second-party reviews over the manual calculation of Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program (SURE), according to a new USDA Office of Inspector General (OIG) report released last week.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack shared the following perspective on Memorial Day, noting the high concentration of service members from rural America, in his blog post titled, “Remembering Those Who Served.â€
The Corn Farmers Coalition is sending the nation’s top crop and the farm families to the U.S. capital this summer for the fourth year in a row as part of an educational program that debuts June 1 at Union Station.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Chief Economist Joseph W. Glauber announced today that USDA is reviewing release times for several major statistical reports due to recent changes in market hours by major commodity exchanges.
Cornell University researchers announced new research that shows crops pollinated by honeybees and other insects contributed $29 billion to farm income in 2010.