The Trump administration is gearing up to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and the President of the National Farmers Union sent a letter urging the administration to amend…
Organic Research Institution Launches Industrial Hemp Research Project
…play in soil health? In 2017, Rodale Institute’s research project was one of 16 projects that received a permit for the inaugural planting of hemp in Pennsylvania in more than…
NCGA Launches Open Innovation Challenge to Find the Next Big Thing for Corn
…and chairman of NCGA’s Corn Productivity and Quality Action Team. “In addition to researchers who have increased the spectrum of renewable chemicals from corn to date, we are reaching out…
Pork Checkoff Builds Momentum for Secure Pork Supply Plan
Plan will minimize business disruption from foreign animal diseases The National Pork Board, with major support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is creating a Secure Pork Supply Plan to…
NFU Urges Immediate Adoption of Farmer Fair Practices Rules
…the intent of the Packers and Stockyards Act to provide individual farmers and ranchers with protection from the most egregious abuses by meatpackers. In some courts, contract poultry growers have…
NCGA Launches Open Innovation Challenge to Find the Next Big Thing for Corn
…technologies that will help drive innovation,” said Larry Hoffmann, a farmer from Wheatland, North Dakota and chairman of NCGA’s Corn Productivity and Quality Action Team. “In addition to researchers who…
Monthly Farm Economy Survey Holds Steady
…10-point decline from its April reading. The latest survey also asked farmers about the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Results show 61 percent of respondents thought the…
Canada, U.S., Ag Leaders Talk Trade
The top agriculture leaders from the United States and Canada met earlier this week, discussing trade and the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. While no negotiations took…
Farm Bureau Asks Senate Committee to Advance EPA Nominee Susan Bodine
American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall has asked the leadership of a Senate committee to approve the nomination of Susan Bodine to Assistant Administrator for the Office of Enforcement…
Conaway Applauds Delay of Compliance Dates for FSMA Agricultural Water Standards
…Safety Modernization Act’s (FSMA) produce safety rule: “Producers need additional time to come into compliance with FSMA’s produce safety rules, and I commend the FDA for providing this needed flexibility….
Perdue Statement on Sugar Agreement with Mexico
…up to the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. I maintain that if the rules are fair and the playing field is level, American agricultural products will succeed,…
USDA Seeks Nominations for the National Organic Standards Board
…to fill an unexpired term will serve for the remainder of the 5-year term of the vacating member. The NOSB was established under the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990…
Trump to Talk Rural Infrastructure Improvements
The national infrastructure will get some attention from the White House this week as the administration gets set to put out details on a $1 trillion infrastructure plan. Politico’s Morning…
Legislation Would End Cuba Trade Embargo
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators has come together to co-sponsor legislation that would end the Cuban trade embargo. The bill is called the “Freedom to Export to Cuba Act”…