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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, January 31, 2025
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., held a teleconference Friday afternoon from Portland, Oregon where wildfires are raging to stress the necessity of reforming the wildfire suppression budget.
USDA announced today it plans to invest an additional $211 million over the next three years in its 11-state, public-private partnership conservation effort to save the greater sage grouse.
A new study from Consumer Reports (CR), the organization known for investigating and rating all sorts of consumer goods from cars to countertops, found high levels of what they deemed ÐdangerousÐ strains of bacteria in American ground beef. But federal officials and t
A group of self-proclaimed Moms for GMOs has released a letter they sent to celebrity advocates including Gwyneth Paltrow and Sarah Michelle Geller urging the actresses to rethink their support for mandatory labeling of products made with genetically modified organisms (GMO)
The higher nutrition standards for school meals imposed by the Obama administration retain strong public support, according to a new poll. However, a second nationwide survey found many public school nutrition directors are struggling to get their staff trained to carry out the standar
USDA will make another $5 million of Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) funding available to Ohio, Michigan and Indiana producers who commit to limiting growth of toxic algal blooms in Lake Erie.
South Africa is keeping its door shut to American poultry and pork imports, frustrating U.S. products who say it isnÐt living up to the requirements of a preferential trade law.
Hollywood royalty in the personae of actresses Blythe Danner and daughter Gwyneth Paltrow came to Capitol Hill Wednesday to support legislation offered by Senate Democrats that would require labeling of foods containing genetically-modified ingredients. They also hope to fight any momentum
USDA is celebrating its 16th annual National Farmers Market Week, which started Aug. 2 and runs through Aug. 8, with Saturday and Sunday the most popular days for markets just around the corner.
