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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
California’s Farm to School Program is opening up a new market for certain growers and supports locally sourced ,nutritious meals—but growing pains have started to show.
The California Farm Bureau filling in a gap in state policymaking with a new research arm analyzing the economic impacts of EU policies that come to California.
Concerns are growing in the U.S. that the European Union’s push to cut pesticide usage in half under the Farm to Fork scheme could have a major impact on the ability of U.S. farmers to export to buyers in the 27-nation bloc.
Farmers and ag stakeholders in the European Union don't object to the goals of the EU’s Farm to Fork strategy, but to the way the European Commission is trying to accomplish them, according to speakers on an Agri-Pulse-hosted webinar Thursday sponsored by the Crop Protection Action Coalition for Trade.
Dozens of European environmental and other non-government organizations are trying to head off any re-evaluation of the Farm to Fork Strategy to address the impact of the war in Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine is threatening to cut global grain supplies and worsen food insecurity, leading to proposals to ramp up agricultural production in the United States and Europe by planting crops this year on conservation acreage.
The U.S. dairy sector is celebrating a judicial victory in the ongoing battle over the use of common cheese names after a federal judge ruled French and Swiss producers don't have an exclusive right to the name Gruyere.
European farm groups were already concerned the EU’s Farm to Fork plan would slash production levels across the bloc of 27 countries, but now they fear that the European Parliament will make the situation worse.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the Biden administration will be announcing new steps on agriculture and climate “very, very shortly” and also will start filling the department’s state-level leadership positions within days.
The United States is asking other nations to join it in a "coalition for productivity growth," an effort emerging — in part — as a counter to the European Union’s Farm-to-Fork strategy that seeks steep cuts in the use of pesticides and fertilizers.
