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Lawmakers unite to defend the potato from possible grain reclassification

04/03/24 6:05 AM By Rebekah Alvey

A bipartisan group of senators say potatoes are vegetables and opposed the spud's potential reclassification as a grain in a letter to USDA and HHS.

Dietary guidelines advisory committee members announced

01/19/23 2:04 PM By Steve Davies

Twenty people have been named to the advisory committee that will help shape the 2025-2030 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, including health equity experts.

Agencies directed to examine national security threats to food, ag

11/10/22 4:35 PM By Steve Davies

The Biden administration wants to focus on the biggest threats to the nation’s food security, citing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, increased ransomware attacks, climate change and the avian flu outbreak.

Daybreak Jan 14: Ag district members break GOP ranks on impeachment

01/14/21 9:23 AM By Philip Brasher, Steve Davies, Bill Tomson, and Ben Nuelle

Lawmakers can now turn their eyes toward next Wednesday when Joe Biden will be inaugurated as president after Donald Trump was impeached by the House for a second time. The Senate won’t take up the impeachment before Trump leaves office.

Plant-based foods get shout-out at DGAC meeting

07/11/19 3:53 PM By Steve Davies

Advocates of plant-based diets, including several people who claimed they had improved their health significantly by adopting them, showed up in force Thursday to make the case that the federal government should radically modify its nutritional advice.

Trump administration plan would shift USDA programs

Department’s nutrition, housing, food safety programs would be on the move

06/21/18 4:21 PM By Spencer Chase

A plan announced today by the Trump administration would shift Department of Agriculture programs to different government agencies, dramatically shrinking the size and scope of the department.

Opinion: Dietary Guidelines 2020

03/01/18 8:00 AM

The drafting of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) has started….and it’s a good start.

National Academy of Sciences suggests changes to Dietary Guidelines process

09/14/17 4:48 PM By Steve Davies

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2017 - The process used to develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans every five years needs an overhaul to increase efficiency and transparency, and enhance credibility, says a new report from the National Academy of Sciences.

More transparency called for in choosing dietary guidelines advisers

02/08/17 10:25 AM By Steve Davies

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2017 - The departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services should be more transparent about how they choose members of the committee that develops the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine said in a report released today.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: May 10, 2024: Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., on farm bill, rural broadband

South Dakota Republican Dusty Johnson sits on the House Agriculture Committee, which will mark up a farm bill on May 23. He joins this week’s show to discuss the latest developments on the farm bill and what the next few weeks will look like. He also dives deeper into the rural broadband efforts.

Then, Joby Young with the American Farm Bureau Federation and Jonathan Coppess with the Gardner Agriculture Policy Program at the University of Illinois join this week’s show to discuss the political environment around a farm bill.

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