…existing measures intended to protect endangered species, the environmental impacts of those measures, and whether there are alternatives to those measures that would better protect both endangered fish species and…
Senate Passes GMO Labeling Legislation
…Committee Chairman Pat Roberts and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow for their work on the bill and urged the House to act as soon as possible to provide certainty in the…
Conaway re: Global Food Security Act
House Agriculture Committee Chairman K. Michael Conaway (R-TX) Agriculture Committee Chairman K. Michael Conaway (R-TX) issued the following statement after the House passed S.1252, the Global Food Security Act of…
Agri View: Pesticide Use and Losing Ability to Produce
…us for food. However, no species enjoys unlimited population growth. All living things are limited by their resources, disease, or natural disasters. Man is no exception. Some wonder if our…
‘Keep Management Local’ Still Focus for SGMA
California has about a year left to get all of the water management entities in place for the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) and experts say the need to keep…
Draft of Approved Changes to Basin Boundaries
…taking an essential step in implementing the historic Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) and empowering local agencies to bring groundwater basins into sustainable patterns of pumping and recharge. SGMA initially…
EPA Proposes Protection from Selenium
…and wildlife species including federally listed threatened and endangered green sturgeon, Chinook salmon, steelhead trout, delta smelt and the California Ridgway’s rail, as well as many migratory bird species that…
Air Quality Incentives Available
…levels that persistently exceed the National Ambient Air Quality Standards established by the Clean Air Act. For fiscal year 2016, interested owners or operators of land managed for agricultural production…
Farm/Food Groups Urging Passage of Biotech Food Labeling Legislation
…of foods made with biotechnology, and we need them to act quickly on the matter.” A federal policy would help food producers avoid the higher economic costs of having several,…
National Pollinator Week
…and how to attract them to your schoolyard. USFWS monarch butterfly website – learn about its life-cycle and migration, and how you can help save this iconic species. The Nature’s…
Senate Biotechnology Compromise
…and innovation, and end the patchwork of state laws threatening interstate commerce. Unfortunately, due to Senator Stabenow dragging this process out for months, Congress will not be able to act…
NMPF Pres. on Roberts-Stabenow Agreement on Food Biotech Legislation
…policy on this issue. Following those visits, the NMPF board adopted a resolution calling on Congress to act quickly to provide consumers across the country clear and consistent information on…
USDA Announces Key Measures to Improve Pollinator Health
…real time insight into the 80,000 bees who live on the roof of USDA’s Headquarters and pollinate the surrounding landscape. This fact sheet fact sheet contains more information about USDA’s…
Western View: Reason for National Monuments
…the Sierra Club. It’s to preserve places that are important to all Americans. The Antiquities act of 1906 gives the President the right to create National Monuments in order to…