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Daybreak Nov, 6: Trump wins in big night for GOP

11/06/24 12:10 PM By Philip Brasher, Rebekah Alvey, and Noah Wicks

Donald Trump has reclaimed the presidency, and Republicans will take charge of the Senate in January. Those results have big implications for a lot of issues, including trade and immigration as well as tax and regulatory policy that are critical to agriculture.

CAST report finds no advantages to free-range poultry, cage-free eggs

07/18/18 5:15 PM By Jim Webster

Free-range poultry and cage-free eggs may command higher prices in the supermarket but they offer consumers little or no demonstrable benefit in food safety or quality, animal health and welfare or healthful food, a panel of scientists concluded after a review of a battery of research papers they called "inconclusive and often contradictory."

CAST seeks suggestions for ag studies

07/11/18 5:15 AM By Ed Maixner

Have an agricultural subject that you think needs investigation? The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology is inviting suggestions for possible in-depth studies by a task force of agricultural scientists.

More animal welfare research needed, CAST report finds

04/25/18 6:35 AM By Steve Davies

Growing public concern over animal welfare is driving the need to examine the impact of large-scale production systems on animals' quality of life, a new report from the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology says.

Scientists say regulation stifles many new biotech traits

03/28/18 6:30 AM By Jim Webster

Federal regulation of agricultural biotechnology needs to be based on risk and not on process, a wide range of scientists and food industry executives agreed at the Agri-Pulse Ag and Food Policy Summit.

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11.22.2024

Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Nov. 22, 2024: Sen. Jerry Moran on disaster aid, farm bill

The race is on to pass a farm bill extension before the end of the year after Senate Ag Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow released her farm bill text this week and it was rejected by Republicans. We asked Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., about the future of the farm bill and prospects for a package of market loss relief and disaster aid in December.

Then, NASDA’s RJ Karney and NFU’s Aaron Shier discuss what agriculture can expect from the Trump administration.

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