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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, May 17, 2024
In response to growing concerns about COVID-19, more than 30 state and national agricultural organizations representing farm, commodity and agribusiness communities joined together to promote vaccination among farmers and other rural Americans.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service is investing up to $50 million nationally in cooperative agreements to support historically underserved farmers and ranchers with climate-smart agriculture and forestry projects.
The Environmental Protection Agency is asking a federal appeals court to send the Trump administration’s decision granting 31 small refinery exemptions for compliance year 2018 back to it for review.
Livestock haulers will be exempt from hours-of-service requirements until late November, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced Tuesday.
Soy Transportation Coalition Executive Director Mike Steenhoek says he expects resiliency at export terminals in New Orleans that weathered the hurricane, but he also stressed that damage assessments need to be conducted.
The Trump administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule has been vacated by a federal judge in Arizona who said allowing it to remain in place risks “serious environmental harm,” particularly in the arid Southwest.
The nation’s sugar cane crop likely took the biggest beating of any farm commodity from Hurricane Ida as it barreled northeast through Louisiana and Mississippi over the weekend and into Monday, but some cotton, rice, and soybean acres may have seen damage too.