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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, October 05, 2024
Farmers who grow the crops being hammered the hardest by commodity market declines are hitting Capitol Hill this week, accompanied by ag bankers and Farm Credit lenders, to make a last-ditch push for a new farm bill.
EPA has proposed a strategy to reduce insecticide exposure to hundreds of federally listed endangered species that includes a wide range of mitigation measures addressing spray drift and erosion.
Commodity groups are mounting a push to convince the Commerce department to limit the potential tariffs it could place on imports of herbicide ingredient 2,4-D from China and India as a result of an investigation into allegations that imports from these countries are being sold in the U.S. at “less than fair value.”
The Environmental Protection Agency says it likely won’t finalize the biofuel usage mandates for 2026 until the end of next year, which is discouraging news for a sector that blames the existing renewable volume obligations for the collapse in credit prices that has hammered many producers.
The United Soybean Board has announced new members of its management team, and CropLife America and Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment (RISE) have made staff changes.
The partisan jockeying on the farm bill continues. House Ag Democrats have rescheduled a meeting with Senate Ag Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow for Wednesday.
There is big news today on the farm bill front. The House and Senate Agriculture committees are making dueling moves today in the partisan standoff over a new bill.
EPA is warning farmworkers of “significant health risks to pregnant individuals and their developing babies” from exposure to the herbicide DCPA (dacthal) and said, “it will be pursuing action,” including possible suspension of the product’s registration, the agency said Monday.
Agricultural technology theft, acquisition of land near military sites and illegal access to precision agriculture data are a few of the potential risks presented by the Chinese Communist Party that the House Agriculture Committee weighed Wednesday in an hours-long hearing.
