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Wednesday, April 09, 2025
EPA and the agrichemical industry are defending the agency’s regulation of pesticides against claims by environmental groups that some of them are, in fact, PFAS.
Syngenta Group CEO Jeff Rowe is optimistic that research and development investments made over the last decade, totaling about $611 million in the U.S. alone, position the company for stronger future growth.
A European policymaker and senior congressman debated ag policy during USDA's Ag Outlook Forum, and a top ag economist opined that farmers are in position to handle the downturn in commodity prices, for this year at least.
The House is approaching another partisan face-off, this time over funding the government for the next fiscal year, after Republicans narrowly won passage of a defense authorization bill last week.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan faces the House Agriculture Committee this week, and the GOP-controlled House takes a largely symbolic vote to overturn President Joe Biden’s veto of a measure that would scrap the administration’s “waters of the U.S.” rule.
Strong commodity prices and tight grain stocks are likely to keep pressure on fertilizer prices for some time to come, a representative of the industry told the House Agriculture Committee on Tuesday.
Congressional leaders released a massive year-end bill Tuesday that would provide $3.7 billion in disaster aid for farmers and enact the Growing Climate Solutions Act to facilitate ag carbon markets.
The California Department of Food and Agriculture plans to facilitate a broad conversation next week that could have major implications for the state’s approach to pesticide governance.
Republicans plan to use their razor-thin House majority and the committee control it gives them to investigate the Biden administration’s regulation of pesticides, climate policy and other issues important to agriculture.
