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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, May 19, 2024
EPA is warning farmworkers of “significant health risks to pregnant individuals and their developing babies” from exposure to the herbicide DCPA (dacthal) and said, “it will be pursuing action,” including possible suspension of the product’s registration, the agency said Monday.
New EPA greenhouse gas standards requiring steep emissions reductions for heavy-duty trucks and buses don’t have the same buy-in from the industry enjoyed by the agency’s rule on cars and medium-duty vehicles released about a week earlier.
The Agriculture Department on Thursday said it will be distributing $124 million through two programs aimed at expanding renewable energy and fertilizer production.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has settled on a running mate and it turns out to be a California lawyer with a strong interest in regenerative agriculture. RFK Jr. has virtually no chance of winning the presidency, but polls show he could draw enough votes to be a factor in a close race between President Biden and former President Donald Trump.
A bipartisan group of senators is announcing a proposal today to expand Agriculture Department research on feed additives for reducing methane emissions from cattle.
Farm-state lawmakers guided more than $753 million in USDA funding into home state projects in this fiscal year’s $26.22 billion Agriculture appropriations bill through a system that allows them to direct money to research facilities, hospitals, community buildings and other pet programs.
Wisconsin Towns Association director Mike Koles had a clear message as he sat before a panel of House lawmakers last week: America’s rural roads, bridges and culverts are deteriorating.
Twenty-one state attorneys general are pressing House and Senate Ag Committee leaders to rewrite the farm bill’s hemp regulations, saying they have opened up a “massive gray market” for hemp-derived products as potent as cannabis.
Colombia is once again accepting U.S. exports of poultry and egg products after shutting off access to their market last summer due to concerns about Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.