Policy
The Farmland Security Act of 2023 seeks to further boost transparency in foreign ownership of U.S. farmland.
Organic dairy farmers emphasized the need for consideration of an organic exemption in any forthcoming federal order hearing, citing the current system as insupportable for their industry.
Dr. Carl Zulauf of Ohio State University, via a FarmDoc Daily article, proposes merging General CRP and Continuous CRP into a Site Specific CRP.
The program targets those who were discriminated against before Jan. 1, 2021, or those still in debt from discriminatory USDA farm loans.
Bipartisan group calls for Farm Bill to include Healthy H2O Act to help rural communities, farmers struggling with PFAS contamination.
According to USDA, Russian-speaking hackers are the likely suspects. The Office of Personnel Management and two organizations within the Department of Energy also were apparently targeted or breached.
DFA decided to withdraw its membership from the IDFA over IDFA’s decision to proceed with its single-issued petition to modify the federal milk marketing order (FMMO) system.
USDA announced on June 14 that it is implementing a multi-step effort aimed at strengthening the substantiation of animal-raising claims.
The bill would offer a pathway for manufacturers to seek FDA approval of additives tied to improving the efficiency of meat and dairy production.
Senate Ag Chair Debbie Stabenow, (D-Mich.) says there will be no new funding for the 2023 farm bill. However, Stabenow stressed she will not allow a cut in conservation funding.
USDA will soon decide whether to hold a formal hearing and propose changes to dairy’s minimum pricing system, which would then require a vote from dairy farmers.
The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Services (AMS) has announced that the formal process of modernizing Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMO) is now officially underway.
“We don’t need to rewrite the entire farm bill,” Rep. Thompson (R-Pa.) says. “We’re comfortable with many parts of the 2018 bill and there aren’t many tweaks, instead things we need to protect and invest in.”
The Office of Investment Security proposed a rule on Friday that would require foreign entities to garner U.S. government approval before they are able to purchase land within 100 miles of eight military bases.
In April 2017, Ray Starling, Special Assistant to the President for Ag, Trade and Food Assistance during the Trump administration, received some important news. What happened next helped change the course of history.
IDFA announced the launch of the Healthy School Milk Commitment, a pledge by dairy companies to deliver milk’s 13 essential nutrients to America’s students while reducing calories and added sugars in flavored milk.
A resolution introduced Tuesday would support the “preservation” of the rule and “oppose efforts to impose new taxes on family farms or small businesses.”
Following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s proposed draft guidance, a group of senators re-introduced bipartisan legislation to combat the unfair practice of mislabeling non-dairy products using dairy names.
This is the second case the U.S. has filed against Canada over dairy market access.
The 2018 farm bill was stamped with a $428 billion price tag when the bill was passed. With the bill set to expire on Sept. 30, here’s what NMPF is lining up for the 2023 farm bill negotiating table.
USDA’s first official net farm income forecast shows an expected 16% drop in 2023 net farm income, largely due to a decline in commodity prices and government payments with higher expenses and costs at the farm level.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced on Friday new nutrition standards for school meals. Here’s what it could mean for dairy.
Sen. Anderson introduced a resolution last Friday aimed at phasing out electric vehicle sales in Wyoming by 2035. The resolution was referred to the state’s minerals committee, who tabled it until 2024.
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Under the rule, APHIS would require tags that are both visually and electronically readable for interstate movement of cattle and bison six months after a final rule is published in the Federal Register.
The issue over Canada’s dairy Tariff-Rate Quota isn’t over yet.
Under the USMCA, Canada conceded to granting lower tariff access across dairy products. But Canada was allocating a bulk of those imports to processors, limiting the ability of other groups to buy U.S. products.
Action by United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai expands dispute to address Canada’s continuing failure to meet Its USMCA obligations.
Both NMPF and IDFA issued a joint statement in response to USDA’s proposed changes to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.
National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) leadership unanimously endorsed a proposal to modernize the Federal Milk Marketing Order milk-pricing system at its annual meeting in Denver.
From record-high gas and diesel prices on the road to a spike in the price Americans are paying for products at the grocery store, the rapid rise in prices is now producing more warning signs of a possible recession.