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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, October 21, 2024
Trucking regulations implemented by the Department of Transportation just last July are again up for debate in Congress, with the produce industry - which argues the rules are ill-conceived - quietly backing their reversal.
FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods Michael Taylor said yesterday that his agency in undergoing a pcultural shiftp as part of the implementation of the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
In a letter to President Barack Obama, 52 House Democrats led by Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine called for protection of the monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act.
Nine men who just might want to be president of the U.S. flocked to Des Moines Saturday to answer questions posed by Iowa farmer and agribusiness leader Bruce Rastetter.
A cohort of mostly GOP Senators is calling on USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services to make sure lean meat is included in the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) filed a friend-of-the-court brief today supporting the six states challenging California0s egg law that places hen cage size restrictions on any shell eggs sold in the state.
China's growing dairy sector continues to spur a surge in U.S. alfalfa hay exports, helping to push prices for the livestock feed to four years high in parts of California.
The Fair Food Network (FFN) is bringing its much-heralded Ðdouble up food bucksÐ program to a chain of supermarkets in Michigan - the first time the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) strategy will be used in a chain.
Researchers at Texas A&M University say that in addition to being another source of energy, sorghum grown to make biofuel also may offer a significant source of carbon sequestration.
Rob Aukerman, president of U.S. and Canada operations at Elanco Animal Health, says pork producers will have to boost output by about 50 percent by mid-century to provide necessary protein levels for a global population thatÐs expected to surge to 9 billion people from the