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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Agriculture groups and state-level agencies are calling on the Agriculture Department, the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency to give rendering a greater role in their proposed strategy for reducing food loss and waste.
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee’s examination of which foods make up a healthy diet has the potato industry worried that the legendary spud will lose its status as a vegetable and thus a favored position in federal nutrition programs.
House Agriculture Committee Republicans want to use the farm bill to improve the operation of programs such as the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program, the chairman of the the Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture subcommittee says.
The European Union appears ready to facilitate approval of gene-edited crops and usher in a new era on the continent, one where plants created using “new genomic techniques” (NGTs) are no longer substantially barred from production.
USDA is launching the largest new nutrition assistance program in decades this year, an effort to ensure low-income children have enough to eat when they’re not in school during the summer, but 15 states have opted out of the program.
One of the biggest days of the year for chicken wing consumption is coming up, and the National Chicken Council expects another massive quantity to be consumed as Americans watch Sunday’s Super Bowl.
House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith has asked the International Trade Commission, an independent panel that advises Congress and the executive branch, to investigate the impact of export restrictions on the U.S. rice industry.
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