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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, May 07, 2024
A meeting scheduled by the Food and Drug Administration next week will offer a window into the debate over who should regulate the fast-growing lab-grown meat industry, which uses animal cells to produce meat grown outside the animals.
The Environmental Protection Agency is prepared to propose a boost in renewable fuel volumes for 2019, according to news reports confirmed by Agri-Pulse.
USDA and the Food and Drug Administration say they’ve taken a key step in streamlining produce safety requirements for farmers and making oversight of food safety stronger and more efficient.
Dairy farmers are reminded that they have until Friday, June 8, to sign up for the Margin Protection Program. The original deadline was June 1, but it was extended by Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.
Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts forcefully rejected proposed farm bill reforms that would make the Agriculture Risk Coverage program more attractive and increase payments to farmers in the upper Midwest at the expense of producers in other regions.
China’s opaque and deliberately slow biotech approval process is costing U.S. farmers, exporters, seed companies and others billions of dollars in lost sales, according to a new analysis being released today by Informa’s Agribusiness Consulting.
U.S. negotiators are pushing for China to increase its imports of U.S. agriculture commodities by about $25 billion, which would more than double the roughly $20 billion the country now buys annually, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said Wednesday.
USDA chief Sonny Perdue will soon have a new chief of staff. He’s Ray Starling, who’s been working at the White House as the ag adviser to President Trump.
Agriculture Sonny Perdue on Friday announced the appointment of Bruce Summers as the administrator of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, part of the department's Marketing and Regulatory Programs mission area.
