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Tuesday, August 09, 2022
New Mexico dairy farmer Art Schaap, who lost nearly 4,000 of his cows due to PFAS contamination, is still waiting on a payment from the Agriculture Department under the Dairy Indemnity Payment Program even as he struggles to keep his business afloat.
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act later this year on 15-year-old Renewable Fuel Standard language that would allow power derived from renewable biomass for electric vehicle charging to qualify for credits through the program.
California legislators are advancing two measures that would require state schools and colleges to purchase more U.S. agricultural products and for state institutions to buy California-grown foods.
The Department of Agriculture is giving interested parties through the end of August to submit their applications for a new pilot program aiming to support biobased product development.
The Supreme Court has rejected Monsanto’s second petition seeking review of a decision that found the nation’s pesticide law does not pre-empt state-law claims that Roundup was misbranded because it did not carry a cancer warning.
The House Appropriations Committee advanced a $27.2 billion spending bill for the Agriculture Department and Food and Drug Administration that would provide significant new funding for conservation technical assistance, rural broadband and food safety.
The state Senate has voted down a measure promising to protect California farmers by holding out-of-state products to the same environmental, food safety and labor standards.
California’s workplace safety regulator has rejected a petition to allow driverless tractors on farms throughout the state, despite pleas from farm groups to support widescale adoption.
Sammy Duda has been named CEO-elect of DUDA and Robert Verloop has been named executive director and chief executive officer of the California Walnut Board and the California Walnut Commission.
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