The LSU AgCenter Pecan Research-Extension Station in Shreveport, La., will not be affected by the alignment of Interstate 69 in southern Caddo Parish after all, according to the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD)....
The newly-created White House Food Safety Working Group has launched a Web site to provide information about the group’s activities and progress....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and 15 other senators are trying once again to break the stranglehold of Florida politics on agricultural trade with Cuba by passing legislation that would loosen the decades-old U.S. embargo....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As critics and proponents continue to clash over the possibility of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) becoming mandatory, the USDA has set up “listening sessions” in an attempt to hear all sides, allay fears and combat misperceptions about the program....
USDA has announced a proposed rule for applying the dairy promotion checkoff to imported dairy products, a development many years in the making that has drawn the praise of the National Milk Producers Federation....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The nation’s food manufacturers are not in danger of running out of sugar despite their claims to the contrary, the American Sugar Alliance said in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Monday. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
There has been plenty of commodity group support for President Obama’s recent directive to the USDA, the EPA and the Department of Energy to pick up the biofuels development pace (see Obama's biofuel initiative). However, praise hasn’t been total: pointed questions — especially from soybean- and corn-based fuel advocates — began almost immediately....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Corn growers want to see a mechanism in which they can sell carbon credits on a regulated market to help offset rising production costs from newly introduced climate change legislation, the president of the National Corn Growers Association says. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The U.S. economy stands to lose $5 billion to $9 billion in sales to its foreign competitors over the next two years if Congress does not take steps to help solve the nation’s ongoing agricultural labor shortage....
Rayne Pegg, legislative and policy adviser for the California Department of Food and Agriculture, has been appointed as the new administrator of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service....
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