…association website Meating Place Dot Com says the country’s food safety agency has found the virus in two wild boars in the southern part of the country. Belgian authorities are…
Organic Production Project to Evaluate Advantages of No-Till Farming
…monitoring and soil health assessments in North Coast vineyards. Some of the grant funding will also go to American Farmland Trust for the purpose of quantifying the economic and environmental…
Refiner Waivers Could Cost Ethanol Industry $20 Billion
…at the University of Missouri estimated the losses over the next six years, if the Environmental Protection Agency continues exempting dozens of small refiners from their blending obligations under the…
Water Works: How the WOTUS Rule Returned to California
…by various environmental groups in the South Carolina court.” The argument made to a federal judge in South Carolina was that the process which established the applicability date rule violated…
Farm, Ethanol Groups Urge President to Restore Integrity to RFS, Allow Year-Round E15 Sales
…Thousands of biofuel manufacturing and farming jobs in America’s Heartland are now at risk due to the EPA’s recent mismanagement of the RFS and inexplicable delay in removing the de…
University Analysis: EPA’s Refiner Waivers Could Cost Ethanol Industry $20 Billion in Losses
…demand and nearly $20 billion in sales revenue over the next six years if the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues its current practice of exempting dozens of small refiners from…
ASTA Requests Exemptions for Seeds on Proposed Chinese Tariffs List
…Act of 1974. The request was made in a formal letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. “While we support the administration’s push for stronger intellectual property protection and enforcement…
NAFTA Talks Continue in Washington
…which wants protection to remain in place for its dairy market. Further, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Canada will not sign a revised agreement without the dispute settlement…
Lawsuit Filed Over Oil Refinery Waivers
Two of the biggest ethanol groups in America have sued both the Environmental Protection Agency and Energy Secretary Rick Perry. The focus of the suit is dozens of hardship waivers…
Mitigating Wildfire Risk with Livestock Grazing
California wildfires continue to be a devastating yearly trend, but livestock grazing can provide an environmentally friendly approach to reducing the risks of fire. The weather patterns of California create…
USDA Launches Trade Mitigation Programs
…August of the programs to be employed: USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) will administer the Market Facilitation Program (MFP) to provide payments to corn, cotton, dairy, hog, sorghum, soybean, and…
USDA Provides Help for Rural People Recovering From Opioid Misuse
Anne Hazlett, the USDA Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development, announced that the agency has formalized an agreement to aid rural Americans in fighting the opioid epidemic. A nonprofit…
State Officials Talk Dicamba in 2019
State pesticide regulators sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency with recommendations on re-registering three dicamba products for 2019. A DTN report says the American Association of Pesticide Control…
ASTA Outlines Priorities for Final Farm Bill
…Protection Act, and expand the scope of the law to include asexually propagated materials such as flowers. ASTA requests the Conference Committee use the language in the House Farm Bill…
