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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Mike Dunlap, previously a senior staff member at the House Agriculture Committee, joined the government affairs team of The Keys Group on March 30, announced Chandler Keys, principal of the agri-business lobbying firm based in Washington, D.C.
USDA is awarding $31.5 million in funding to local, state, and national organizations to support programs that help participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) increase their purchase of fruits and vegetables.
The pork product is the meat that has become an American obsession, once eaten solely for breakfast, but now found wrapped around other foods, infused into cocktails 0 even made into personal care products.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack called the working group looking to reform the beef checkoff to his office Tuesday afternoon to discuss the stalled process and his own ideas for reform, which may involve setting up another new checkoff fund to generate more investments.
The first meetings between President Barack Obama and India°s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington this week seemed to help forge a bond between the two world leaders and produced a lengthy list of projects in which both countries could cooperate ° ranging from national security is
Up against the 10 percent °blend wall° which limits its market, the ethanol industry is screaming for relief. It wants its oil-industry competitors to provide consumers with more choice, allowing drivers to fill up with EPA-approved-for-all E15 (15 percent
A new study concludes there are no adverse health effects for animals that eat genetically engineered (GE) feed grains or from the products derived those animals.
The likelihood of an El Ni°o event developing over the Pacific Ocean is still up in the air, but if the weather pattern develops, there°s little chance it will provide enough rain to end one of the worst droughts in California history.
As farmers accelerate the 2014 corn and soybean harvest across the country, a key 2015 input is demonstrating some marketplace volatility with potential savings that might not make it all the way to producers.
Varroa mites and neonicotinoid pesticides are being targeted by opposing groups of legislators and industry stakeholders in the search for the culprit behind pollinator population losses, particularly the honey bee, which the government says adds more than $15 billion in value to agric
