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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, March 07, 2025
In this opinion piece, Anja Raudabaugh, CEO of Western United Dairies, lays out how she says dairy producers in California were able to soundly defeat a proposed ban on concentrated animal feeding operations in Sonoma County.
Dairy farmers weary of aggressive state mandates fear federal approval could lead lawmakers or state agencies to force their adoption through regulations.
Midwest states are encouraging dairy farmers to expand their operations beyond California. But younger farmers are developing more innovative solutions to survive in the costly and changing business climate.
CropLife America has brought on Peggy Browne as the new vice president of government relations and Lillie Zeng has started her new job as director of communications at the American Sugar Alliance.
Switching highly specialized supply chains to an oversubscribed market is raising new challenges as well as questions about how the nation feeds the hungry during crises.
Negotiations have been put on hold due to lawsuits and politics between the Trump and Newsom administrations – along with global economic uncertainty from the pandemic.
