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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, April 29, 2024
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved bills Wednesday authorizing USDA to mandate minimum levels of cash trading in cattle and establish a special investigator’s office in USDA to probe allegations of unfair marketing practices.
Competition in the seed business is either robust or severely diminished, according to comments submitted to USDA that reflect a deep divide in the industry over the question of consolidation and raise concerns about access to traits developed through biotechnology.
The Supreme Court denied a petition from Monsanto Tuesday to review a federal appeals court ruling that found the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act does not preempt state tort-law claims.
The National Pork Producers Council and American Farm Bureau Federation got a boost in their Supreme Court challenge to California’s animal housing law, Proposition 12, with the U.S. government’s filing of a brief supporting the groups.
The Environmental Protection Agency must re-examine its finding that glyphosate is “not likely” to cause cancer in humans, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
“Not that I’m aware of.” House Agriculture Chairman David Scott says that answer from Tim Schellpeper, the CEO of meatpacking giant JBS USA, at a hearing in April is enough to justify setting up a special investigator’s office at USDA to look into meat industry practices.
Three widely used insecticides are “likely to adversely affect” the vast majority of threatened and endangered species, according to a new analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency.