…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…
U.S. EPA Fines Fresno Pesticide Distributor for Failure to Properly Label High-Risk Pesticide
…that inspection, EPA asserted that Snowden Enterprises had several violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), which regulates the safe distribution, sale and use of pesticides in…
Agri View: GMO Law
…The Grocery Manufacturers Association immediately filed an appeal that is currently pending. Read more. From: Congress.gov H.R.1599 – Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 114th Congress (2015-2016) Safe…
Agri View: Troubled Ocean Waters
…Sanctuaries Act, which also implements the London Convention. London Convention and London Protocol The London Convention and London Protocol establish the global rules and standards for preventing, reducing, and controlling…
Farming from the Heart- Erin Gorter from Cal Poly SLO
…the biggest issues educators see right now, but one teacher educator says there is a solution; we just need to act on it. I spoke about this issue with Erin…
NMPF Endorses Creating Tax Incentive Legislation
…technologies, such as manure digesters, that improve the environment, the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) said in support of the Agriculture Environmental Stewardship Act. The new bipartisan legislation, introduced in…
Market Match Program Helps Families and Farmers
…funds to expand Market Match by funding the California Nutrition Incentives Act. The proposed $5 million in state funds would attract federal matching dollars through the USDA’s Food Insecurity Nutrition…
Asian Citrus Psyllid Pest Found in Monterey County
…leaves. Inspect your citrus often and report any suspicious insects or symptoms to the Agricultural Commissioner’s office.” The ACP is an invasive species of great concern because it can transmit…
Western View: Use a Plow, Go to Jail?
…which is a seasonal water basin, which in some parts of the country might be called a mud puddle – had no endangered species in its dry soil. The pool…
Agri View: GMO Legislation
…to take action to unify the potpourri of local statutes. Sensing that the populist tide for labeling is sweeping through many states, the House passed in 2015 the Republican-led Safe…
NACD Welcomes Bill To Keep Red Tape At Bay
…Access to Farm Conservation Act’ would ensure that the producers of America’s food, fuel, and fiber aren’t obligated to jump through hoops to receive the NRCS cost-share assistance they need…