…percent of the costs the study authors could measure, with LGMA audits making up 11 percent and other commercial audits 6 percent. The PR recommends but does not require, a…
Fresno Food Expo Award Applications Still Being Accepted
…of Fred Ruiz, founder of Ruiz Food Products, Inc., the Fred Ruiz Entrepreneurial Award honors companies who have positively impacted the Central California food industry through leadership, innovation and community…
Conservation and Forestry Subcommittee Highlights Importance of Watershed Maintenance in Rural America
…– preventing damage and destruction in communities across the country,” said Subcommittee Chairman Lucas. “But as these investments rapidly age so too does the protection and certainty they provide to…
NPPC, Ports Coalition, Applaud Early West Coast Port Contract Talks
…work slowdown. A work slowdown in 2014-2015 affected 29 West Coast and cost the U.S. meat industry millions of dollars in lost export sales. From the National Association of Farm…
Organic Industry to Create Anti-fraud Task Force
A task force started by the Organic Trade Association will work on best-practices to verify international organic products. The anti-fraud task force will create guidelines for the private sector to…
Conaway, Rouzer Praise U.S.-China Beef Agreement
Following the announcement that the U.S. and China have finalized an agreement allowing for American beef exports, House Agriculture Committee Chairman K. Michael Conaway (TX-11) and Livestock and Foreign Agriculture…
U.S., China Finalize Details to Send U.S. Beef to China
…Administration has taken important steps toward commercial shipment of U.S. beef and beef products to China for the first time since 2003. These shipments are results of the U.S.-China Comprehensive…
California Leopold Conservation Award® Still Accepting Nominations
…protect family farms and ranches on behalf of more than 48,000 members statewide and as part of a nationwide network of more than 6.2 million Farm Bureau members. cfbf.com ABOUT…
Dairy Groups Pledge to Work with Trump Administration on NAFTA Modernization
…officials, according to comments from USDEC and NMPF. U.S. dairy companies have been working with partners in the Mexican dairy industry for years to build the size and variety of…
Withdraw ‘GIPSA’ Rule, Say NPPC, Pork Producers
…violations of federal law even if they didn’t harm competition or cause competitive injury, prerequisites for winning PSA cases. In its comments, NPPC said the rule “is illegal and in…
USDA Announces Farm to School Grant Awards
…relationship between Community Food Systems and Child Nutrition Programs. More information on individual projects can be found on the USDA Office of Community Food Systems’ website at www.fns.usda.gov/farmtoschool/grant-awards. USDA’s Food…
Trump Administration Reviewing Sage Grouse Plans
…opposition by industry and farm groups along the way, which argue the rules go too far. Zinke said he assembled a review team comprised of scientists at the U.S. Geological…
Trump Waterways Commitment Needs Funding
Farm groups are encouraged by President Donald Trump’s infrastructure commitment for waterways, but Politico questions how the President plans to fund the effort. Trump announced his plan with Agriculture Secretary…
Agri View: Big Farm, Small Farm
…make agriculture work. I take that to mean that the other 32 percent of total farm production came from mid-sized farms. Although, mid-sized farms were not even mentioned. That’s Agri…