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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, January 12, 2025
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced today a determination of nonregulated status for Dow AgroSciences’s soybean genetically engineered (GE) for insect resistance.
USDA today announced the availability of approximately $66 million in Specialty Crop Block Grants to state departments of agriculture for projects that help support specialty crop growers, including locally grown fruits and vegetables, through research, programs to increase demand and more.
Three senators urged USDA today to develop food safety standards that would significantly reduce levels of salmonella and campylobacter in chicken and turkey products.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) awarded $196.4 million in funding to more than 80 U.S. agricultural and trade organizations to help expand commercial export markets for U.S. products.
A study released by Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE) and the Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform (ACIR) on Tuesday argues that the economy has suffered from the lack of immigration reform.
A USDA report offering ?long-run? projections through 2023 says ethanol production will continue to grow over the next several years, but at a reduced rate when compared with that recorded during this century?s first decade. Still, the multi-agency document says producing the alternative fuel will
The dairy panel at USDA’s annual Outlook Forum focused almost entirely on the bullish market prospect for dairy farmers and vigorous exports of U.S. dairy products. Yet one speaker offered a long-term caveat about potential “unintended consequences†arising from the milk margin protection program a
Several Northwestern states are expected to have near normal of above normal water supplies, while far less than normal streamflow is expected in some southern portions of the nation, according to report released April 14 by the Agriculture Department.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2014 - Research under way in the Deep South hopes to give Louisiana and Mississippi farmers two new “energy†crops to add to their portfolios. Researchers with the Louisiana State University AgCenter, Mississippi State University Cooperative Extension Service and USDA are worki
Sens. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, late last week introduced legislation that would extend the expired biodiesel tax incentive for three years
