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Tuesday, May 24, 2022
EPA Administrator Michael Regan says the agency is putting a priority on re-evaluating pesticides for their environmental impact under the Endangered Species Act.
Farmers in the Corn Belt are behind on planting spring crops this year, with cool and wet weather keeping them out of their fields. Many are now racing to get their corn and soybean acres planted before they reach the cutoff dates for federal crop insurance programs.
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf faces lawmakers this week amid nationwide alarm over the shortage of infant formula and continued questions about the agency’s oversight of food and agriculture.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack wraps up a trip to Europe where he's been in talks over the global food crisis and the war in Ukraine.
Farmers are struggling this spring with sky-high production costs, but the bigger concern is whether there will be enough fertilizer and other inputs to go around for next season
Meatpacking companies coordinated extensively with USDA officials and others in the Trump administration to keep their plants running in 2020 despite the growing risk of coronavirus to their workers, according to a congressional report that is based on internal industry documents.
The office in the Labor Department that oversees and enforces the H-2A guest worker program will continue to be without a leader for the foreseeable future, which could hamper the Biden administration’s efforts to provide more protections for farmworkers.
President Biden’s bid to induce more double cropping of wheat and soybeans would likely have just a modest impact on production, according to an analysis by the American Soybean Association.
Cabinet members will be back on Capitol Hill this week, this time in the Senate, where they will face questions as lawmakers and appropriators mull 2023 budgets for the federal agencies.
Many farmers in the southern Plains and the West worry they can't produce their crops this year because of an abnormally dry winter and little prospect for moisture in coming weeks.
Two senators are racing to find a deal on immigration reform for the agriculture workforce, but enacting a farm labor bill remains a long-shot in this Congress.
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