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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Fast food giant Burger King launched a new social media campaign Tuesday to announce its plans to reduce methane emissions from cattle used to produce beef for their Whoppers, an effort that left many in production agriculture disappointed.
An organic trade pact between the U.S. and Japan has been expanded to include livestock products, the Department of Agriculture and U.S. Trade Representative announced Tuesday.
Randy Gordon, who has been with the National Grain and Feed Association for the last 43 years and its CEO for the last eight, plans to retire from the organization next year.
A key Republican senator says that the Senate’s coronavirus aid package is likely to include a similar level of aid to what was in the House-passed HEROES Act: $33 billion.
The Agriculture Department is making dozens of additional fruits, vegetables and herbs eligible for payments under the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program and expanding benefits for some other commodities.
House Democrats failed to stop Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue from relocating the Economic Research Service and National Institute for Food and Agriculture. But members of the House Appropriations Committee continue to raise concern about the agency moves.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler says there are a handful of unanswered questions in the effort by small refineries looking to secure relief from past blending requirements of the nation’s biofuel mandate.
A new bill introduced Tuesday would allow for meat processed at certain state-inspected facilities and sold via e-commerce to be shipped across state lines.
