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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
Cargill and Continental Grain completed their acquisition of poultry company Sanderson Farms on Friday, finishing a process that has been heavily scrutinized by the Justice Department.
President Joe Biden is once again taking aim at the nation’s largest meat and poultry processors, vowing to boost competition for America’s farmers and ranchers and reduce prices for consumers.
The House Agriculture Committee is adding seven new Republican members. All but one, Texas Rep. Michael Cloud, are first-term members. The others: Kat Cammack of Florida, Randy Feenstra of Iowa, Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota, Tracy Mann of Kansas, Mary Miller of Illinois and Barry Moore of Alabama.
Foster Farms has reopened a poultry processing plant in Livingston, Calif., after shutting it for a week to conduct thousands of COVID-19 tests on employees and conduct “deep cleaning” of the facilities.
USDA’s regulatory reform officer told Capitol Hill lawmakers Tuesday that the department has identified about 140 regulations as “possible options” for revision or repeal. Although she did not identify them, she said a “significant number” will be published in the fall Unified Regulatory Agenda that should appear any day now, if history is any guide.