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Farm Hands West: Almond Board of California hires new media manager

05/05/21 7:04 AM By Hannah Pagel

The Almond Board of California has hired Rick Kushman as the new manager of media relations and Valerie Shepler has joined the staff of Fall Creek Farm and Nursery as a commercial manager for the U.S. and Canada territories.

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Farm Hands on the Potomac: Bustos will not seek re-election

05/05/21 6:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

The Department of the Interior has announced new leadership, former EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler has joined The Heritage Foundation, and Blake Rollins has been selected to serve as Missouri Farm Bureau’s chief administrative officer.

House Biofuels Caucus urges Trump to deny biofuel waivers

01/13/21 12:50 PM By Ben Nuelle

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is urging President Donald Trump to reject small refinery exemptions from being granted by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Daybreak Jan 11: AFBF president says pandemic unknowns remain

01/11/21 9:13 AM By Philip Brasher, Steve Davies, Ben Nuelle, and Bill Tomson

Prices for many commodities have risen sharply to levels not seen in several years. But the president of the nation’s largest farm group, the American Farm Bureau Federation, isn’t ruling out seeking additional federal relief in 2021.

Supreme Court to hear biofuel waiver case

01/08/21 9:01 PM By Spencer Chase

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on a case central to the Renewable Fuel Standard, the nation’s biofuel mandate, and efforts on the part of refiners to be exempted from federal blending requirements through the use of small refinery exemptions.

Daybreak Jan 6: Republicans urged to affirm election outcome

01/06/21 9:18 AM By Steve Davies, Bill Tomson, Ben Nuelle, and Philip Brasher

Hundreds of business leaders, including some in the ag industry, are calling on Congress not to delay confirming the results of November’s presidential election. Congress is set to meet today to count the electoral votes.

EPA narrows protections from pesticide spraying

10/29/20 12:06 PM By Steve Davies

The Environmental Protection Agency has narrowed a rule to protect individuals from pesticide spraying by establishing one 25-foot “Application Exclusion Zone” for all ground spray applications and limiting AEZ’s to the boundaries of the agricultural establishment.

Andrew Wheeler makes dicamba announcement

EPA OKs dicamba use for five more years

10/27/20 5:26 PM By Steve Davies

Dicamba applications on soybean and cotton will come with a cutoff date next year and require larger buffer zones to avoid off-target drift, the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday in approving new five-year registrations for the herbicides.

Daybreak Oct. 27: Farm groups joining EPA chief for announcement

10/27/20 9:18 AM By Steve Davies, Bill Tomson, and Ben Nuelle

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler will announce the agency’s decision on dicamba this afternoon in rural Georgia, accompanied by American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall, National Cotton Council Chairman Kent Fountain and Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Gary Black.

USDA, EPA label Amazon a food loss and waste ‘champion’

10/21/20 6:26 AM By Spencer Chase

Online retail giant Amazon is the newest “champion” of a government challenge to reduce operational food loss and waste by more than 50% by 2030, USDA and EPA jointly announced Friday.

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Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont.

This week’s Open Mic guest is Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont. As a third-generation farmer, Tester and his wife are seeing firsthand the devastating impact of drought in the West. Tester supports infrastructure spending and government outlays to pull the country out of the pandemic-induced recession. In this interview, he speaks to the issues of consolidation, competition and transparency in the cattle market as well as California’s Proposition 12 and recently proposed legislation to eliminate CAFOs by 2040.

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Opinion: California: A misguided leader in economic protectionism

California recently added to its no-travel list. There are now 17 states California officials are forbidden to travel on state business because those states have laws that don’t pass muster in the eyes of California’s ever vigilant hall monitors. In two initiatives passed by California voters in 2008 and 2018, California has placed restrictions on out-of-state producers of agricultural products, barring the import of animal products produced in facilities that don’t meet California’s requirements on animal housing.

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Washington Week in Review: July 22, 2021: Sen. Kevin Cramer, R- N.D. on bipartisan infrastructure talks

This week Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., joins Philip Brasher to discuss the latest on bipartisan infrastructure talks and reconciliation. Cramer also shares concerns about ending stepped-up basis, a carbon border tax, and North Dakota farmers suffering from drought.

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