…of milk production each week,” said Jim Mulhern, President and CEO of NMPF. “When other countries disingenuously use policies and regulations to block those sales – especially in light of…
U.S. EPA Fines Fresno Pesticide Distributor for Failure to Properly Label High-Risk Pesticide
…information about restricted use pesticides, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-worker-safety/restricted-use-products-rup-report For more information about pesticides and worker safety, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-worker-safety For more information on FIFRA and its enforcement, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-federal-insecticide-fungicide-and-rodenticide-act…
FAA Rules Clear Runway for Small Drones
…of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS or “drones”), opening pathways towards fully integrating UAS into the nation’s airspace. These new regulations work to harness new innovations safely, to spur job…
Agri View: Troubled Ocean Waters
…pollution of the marine environment by dumping. The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC), directs states to adopt laws and regulations on ocean dumping that…
Western View: Use a Plow, Go to Jail?
…Act clearly exempts normal farming practices. Moreover, the implementing regulations state that plowing is never subject to the Act, so long as it does not convert wetlands to dry land….
Licensing, Certification and Continuing Education Renewal
…submitted in writing. You can email the request to: LicenseMail@cdpr.ca.gov (do not reply to this listserve message). Note that it is required by CA regulations that you immediately notify DPR…
ACP Quarantine Changes Not Favored by All
Some growers in Southern California may not be happy with CDFA’s proposed ACP quarantine changes to USDA’s statewide regulations. Quarantine Changes Not Favored by All California Asian citrus psyllid (ACP)…
CFBF Seeks Movement on Drought Bills
…worse,” he said. “Too often, ESA regulators impose rules and regulations on water users that have enormous costs but negligible benefits for the environment.” CFBF federal policy consultant Erin Huston…
More Overhead Irrigation in California’s Future
…irrigation may also help with salinity management by uniformly leaching salts from a crop’s root zone. Precision irrigation, including overhead systems, are becoming ever more critical with coming groundwater regulations,…
NPPC: ‘GIPSA’ Rule Would Wipe Out TPP Benefits
…reproposing parts of the GIPSA Rule, which first was proposed in 2010 to implement provisions included in the 2008 Farm Bill. The regulations, however, went well beyond the Farm Bill…
Agri View: Food Distribution
…insufficient skilled personnel and are unable to enforce regulations. Consequently, trading in public markets becomes more difficult and, therefore, costly. Food Retailing Middle and high-income consumers shop at supermarkets while…
EPA, Army Corps of Engineers Violate Law, Farm Bureau Tells Congress
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers have violated their own regulations and effectively invented new ones in enforcing the Clean Water Act, the American Farm Bureau…
Legislation Introduced to Set Food Labeling Standards
…a national level, leaving states to develop their own label regulations, which were sometimes confusing. Some labels were meant to indicate when food could no longer be safely eaten, and…
NPPC: ‘GIPSA’ Rule, TPP Could Affect Producers
…Stockyards Administration) Rule, which first was proposed in 2010 to implement provisions included in the 2008 Farm Bill. The regulations, however, went well beyond the Farm Bill provisions and would…