…Side Capital Flows , Contributor to Forbes by Omri Ben-Shahar, professor at the University of Chicago Law School As more states pass mandatory GMO labeling laws, Congress has been trying…
NPPC President Weber Talks Exports, TPP on Capital Hill
…Partnership (TPP) Agreement, which would eliminate tariff and non-tariff barriers to U.S. products, the National Pork Producers Council reiterated in congressional testimony. NPPC President John Weber, a pork producer from…
NMPF Board Adopts Resolution
NMPF Board Adopts Resolution Urging Congress to Pass Federal Biotech Labeling Standard With Vermont’s biotechnology food labeling law about to take effect in July, the National Milk Producers Federation urged…
Plant Health and Resilience Research
…for $700 million; this amount is the full funding level authorized by Congress when it established AFRI in the 2008 Farm Bill. For more information on what a changing climate…
CFBF Seeks Movement on Drought Bills
…It’s time for the Senate to send a drought bill to a conference committee, and for Congress to produce commonsense legislation that helps ease the impact of water shortages in…
NPPC: ‘GIPSA’ Rule Would Wipe Out TPP Benefits
…the pork industry more than $330 million annually. Tens of thousands of comments, including 16,000 from pork producers, were filed in opposition to the rule, and Congress several times included…
Impacts of Food Waste
…I The Honorable Chellie Pingree, Member of Congress from Maine Panel II Ms. Dana Gunders, Senior Scientist, Food & Agriculture Program, National Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, CA Mr. Jesse…
EPA, Army Corps of Engineers Violate Law, Farm Bureau Tells Congress
…Federation said today. Don Parrish, senior director of congressional relations at AFBF, told the Senate Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water and Wildlife that the Army Corps’ novel interpretations of environmental law…
NPPC: ‘GIPSA’ Rule, TPP Could Affect Producers
…more than $330 million annually. Tens of thousands of comments, including 16,000 from pork producers, were filed in opposition to the rule, and Congress several times included riders in USDA’s…
NMPF Chairman: Dairy Farm Safety Net Needs Work
…conditions affecting America’s dairy farmers call for improvements by Congress to the federal safety net program created in the 2014 Farm Bill, according to Randy Mooney, chairman of the National…
Benefits To U.S. Of TPP Deal
…pork producers strongly support the TPP, and we urge Congress to quickly pass it.” NPPC, which has been a leading voice in support of the TPP, believes the deal could…
Funding for Bioeconomy Research and Development
…Americans. The President’s 2017 budget request proposed to fully fund AFRI for $700 million; this amount is the full funding level authorized by Congress when it established AFRI in the…
The Western View: The EPA, Waters of the USA, and Stock Ponds
…those folks in a little, Congress? Or at least buy Johnson a few head of cattle to replace the ones he had to sell to fight off the bureaucrats. I’m…
Funding for Critical Water Research
…proposes to fully fund AFRI for $700 million; this amount is the full funding level authorized by Congress when it established AFRI in the 2008 Farm Bill. Since 2009, NIFA…