Get the latest agriculture news in today’s Farm City Newsday, hosted by Brian German. Today’s show contains reports on the surprising pistachio production expectation, the secondary impacts of the prohibition…
The Western View: September is California Wine Month
…in 1919, Prohibition stopped it in its tracks. Prohibition ended in 1933, but the wine industry was slow to recover. After the Korean war, it began to expand and finally…
MORE Act Passes House, More Than a Symbolic Victory?
…Representatives – recognize the urgent need to end the federal government’s misguided cannabis prohibition, and begin to right the wrongs of the War on Drugs and its damage to communities…
Chlorpyrifos Alternatives Workgroup Roundtables a ‘Complete Travesty’
…workgroup as it attempts to develop a five-year plan to adapt the agricultural industry to the prohibition on chlorpyrifos products. The last roundtable is scheduled for Tuesday, January 21 in…
Report Shows Licensed Hemp Acreage More Than Quadrupled in 2019
…in 2019,” Vote Hemp President Eric Steenstra noted in a press release. “Now that we have lifted federal prohibition on hemp farming, it’s time build the infrastructure and expand hemp…
The Western View: September is California Wine Month
…booms during and after the Gold Rush, but the temperance movement, and a devastating vine disease slowed it down, then in 1919, Prohibition stopped it in its tracks. Prohibition ended…
Navigating the ‘Re-Hemption’ of North America
…hemp this year in California. We’re very optimistic in that we have a vertically integrating business.” Although hemp is not entirely new to the American market, the longstanding prohibition of…
Industry Response to Ruling on Year-Round Sale Of E15 Gasoline
…U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule allowing retailers to sell gasoline containing 15% ethanol (E15) year-round. Today’s action fulfills President Trump’s promise to eliminate the summertime prohibition on E15,…
Chlorpyrifos Ban in California Officially Underway
…process. The stricter permitting restrictions for chlorpyrifos, including the prohibition of aerial sprays and implanting quarter-mile buffer zones, will remain in place. Aggressive enforcement of those restrictions is being encouraged…
Perdue Reiterates Need to Restore Original Intent of SNAP
…the work requirements of 20 hours per week. And what you also passed was not a prohibition, it was no change to the fact that in one section it says…
Indonesia and Australia Commit to Trade Agreement
…says market access has been restricted through Australia’s prohibition on selling chilled and frozen U.S. pork at retail. NPPC says that decision was not based on science. Dermot Hayes of…
CDFA Works to Reinstate Emergency Pest Management Protocols
…order that invalidated segments of CDFA’s Programmatic Environmental Impact Report for Pest Prevention and Management. The court’s decision resulted in the prohibition of spraying pesticides on vegetation in parks, school…
Arkansas Lawmakers OK Dicamba Ban
Arkansas lawmakers approved, without discussion, a partial-ban on a herbicide that drifts on to other crops where it wasn’t applied and causes damage. An Associated Press report says the prohibition…
Copyright Office Wants Congress To Handle “Right to Repair”
…the Librarian of Congress, upon the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, may adopt temporary exemptions to Section 1201’s prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted…
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