EPA: No significant risk to children from chlorpyrifos

09/23/20 10:27 AM By Brad Hooker

A new risk assessment from EPA concludes there are no risks of concern to children’s health from chlorpyrifos.

Citrus greening is making inroads in commercial groves

08/12/20 12:49 PM By Brad Hooker

CDFA has detected the first psyllid in a commercial grove that tested positive for the bacteria that causes citrus greening.

Daybreak: Growers asked to step up ACP prevention

08/10/20 12:55 PM By Brad Hooker

Aid impasse enters new week * Key GOP lawmaker warns against revising farm bill

Elanco nears finish line for Bayer Animal Health acquisition

07/20/20 4:46 PM By Steve Davies

The Federal Trade Commission is opening a 30-day comment period Tuesday on its conditions for Elanco Animal Health’s $7.6 billion purchase of Bayer Animal Health, paving the way for final approval of the deal.

Neonicotinoid makers, enviros both applaud settlement

05/29/19 6:35 AM By Steve Davies

Pesticide companies and the Center for Food Safety are pleased with a legal settlement that involves canceling 12 neonicotinoid registrations and evaluating the effects of two neonics on endangered species.

Broad-spectrum insecticide chlorpyrifos a target at state, federal level

01/23/19 6:20 AM By Steve Davies

Growers in California and several other states are fighting to retain use of chlorpyrifos, a broad-spectrum insecticide environmentalists and farmworker advocates have sought to ban for years.

Europeans consider permanent ban on all neonics

03/07/18 6:16 AM By Steve Davies

New assessments by the European Food Safety Authority confirm the risk of three neonicotinoids to bees, EFSA said last week, and may lead to a permanent ban in Europe of the insecticides.

Tom Gallagher, DMI

This week’s Open Mic guest is Tom Gallagher, CEO of Dairy Management Incorporated. Few commodity groups in the nation have seen greater challenges than dairy farmers over the past several years. The COVID pandemic, higher feed costs, consolidation in the processing industry and drought are just a few of the challenges producers have endured. Yet, prices have stabilized and consumers continue to seek dairy products. Tom Gallagher says the industry is adapting to marketing concepts that reach younger consumers and sharing the dairy message of sustainability to an information thirsty consumer.

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Opinion: America is missing an opportunity to lead in seafood production, leaving jobs on the table

In this opinion piece, Sean J. O’Scannlain with Fortune Fish & Gourmet discusses the need for federal legislation to clarify perimeters to establish an American aquaculture industry that would create jobs in many communities.

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Washington Week in Review: June 17, 2021: Processing capacity, immigration, and trade

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack was on Capitol Hill this week discussing a wide array of USDA priorities, including the expansion of processing capacity in the meat sector. Agri-Pulse's Phil Brasher and Spencer Chase have more on that and a look at where things stand on ag workforce legislation in the Senate in this week's video.

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