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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, May 03, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration is being closely watched with an anticipated announcement expected January 31 on the direction the agency plans to take following the scathing Reagan-Udall report recommendations on improving FDA’s focus of food. Other work this year for the agency includes finalizing the Food Safety Modernization Act’s agricultural worker rule and reauthorizing the Animal Drug User Fee Act.
State broadband offices and researchers say new maps from the Federal Communications Commission that will be used to allocate billions of dollars in funding have failed to catch large swaths of the population without adequate internet speeds.
Commodity groups whose members depend on chlorpyrifos are desperately trying to overturn an EPA decision resulting in the loss of the long-used insecticide deemed unsafe on food crops.
If India can keep on track for using more and more ethanol in gasoline, the country could well blend its way into needing U.S. imports, opening up major new trading opportunities with the second-most populous nation in the world.
A new strategy from the American Lamb Board puts a big emphasis on marketing, research and industry services as the primary goals to increase demand and the domestic sheep flock.
States on the East and West coasts are crafting policies to require higher biofuel blends in place of petroleum diesel, a step that renewable and biodiesel producers believe will continue to drive growth for their products.
President Joe Biden has submitted a pair of nominations to the Senate for Agriculture Department positions, hoping to see the two officials confirmed after unsuccessful bids in the last Congress.