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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
The White House and USDA continue their full court press to get a vote on comprehensive immigration reform in the House with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack commenting on the issue in recent days.
U.S. wheat supplies for the marketing year beginning June 1 will total 2.7 billion bushels, down 10 percent from the current year, as continuing drought and freeze events cut production, USDA said today. The report contained the department’s first projections for the 2014-2015 crop year.
President Barack Obama said he plans to nominate Lisa Mensah, the executive director of the Initiative on Financial Security at the Aspen Institute, as the USDA’s under secretary for rural development.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is making a historic $78 million investment in local and regional food systems, including food hubs, farmers markets, aggregation and processing facilities, distribution services, and other local food business enterprises.
The Renewable Fuels Association and several other leaders in America’s renewable fuel industry banded together to write to President Barack Obama today, urging him to reconsider a proposal by the administration to reduce the renewable content of gasoline and diesel fuel.
The American Meat Institute today released the results of a survey that shows consumers are confused about the causes of antibiotic resistance and the use of antibiotics in livestock and poultry production. At the same time, AMI published a brochure to counter the misconceptions.
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The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) says the Food and Drug Administration is ignoring the mislabeling of dairy-specific names in food products with no milk content while over-focusing on certain types of sugars.
Senator Susan Collins is leading an effort to convince USDA to include white potatoes in the Special Nutrition for Women Infants and Children (WIC) program.
Former U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., a one-time chairman of the powerful House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, died yesterday at his home in Potomac, Maryland. He was 79.
