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President trump signs executive orders to Boost Rural America

President Trump is sending a clear signal this week that he is interested and engaged in helping boost rural America. With the executive order signed on Tuesday, USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue will chair a newly established Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity, charged “to ensure the informed exercise of regulatory authority that impacts agriculture and rural ...

Apr. 26, 2017

By National Cattlemen`s Beef Association

Towards a new European agricultural and agri-food product promotion policy

The European Commission today presented a draft reform of the information and promotion policy for European agricultural and food products. This new promotion policy, which benefits from a more substantial budget and will in the future be supported by a European executive agency, is intended to act as key for opening up new markets. With the slogan 'Enjoy, it´s from Europe', the policy aims ...

Nov. 21, 2013

By Europa Press Room

Agrosciences on line : launch of the Agreenium-IAVFF Online University

With learning strategies including ever more digital content, the first course from the Agreenium-Institut Agronomique Vétérinaire et Forestier de France (IAVFF, France's Agricultural, Veterinary and Forestry Institute) Online University is now open for subscriptions. Officially launched by three Ministers on Tuesday, February 24, 2015, at the Paris International Agricultural Show ...

Mar. 9, 2015

By INRA - French National Institute of Agronomical Research

The Ag & Food Law Update: September 12, 2016

JUDICIAL: Includes labeling, AWA, AMAA, and dog law issues. Zapata Fonseca v. Goya Foods Inc., No. 16-CV-02559-LHK, 2016 WL 4698942 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 8, 2016) plaintiff filed class action after defendant sold four products labeled as “octopus.” Plaintiff argued products were squid instead of octopus, and that defendant “intentionally replaced the octopus with squid to save money ...

Sep. 12, 2016

By The National Agricultural Law Center (NALC)

State aid: Commission adopts new rules for State Aids in Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Areas

The European Commission has today (June 25, 2014) set out revised and updated criteria under which Member States can support agriculture, forestry and rural areas, in line with EU state aid rules. This is part of the Commission's State Aid Modernisation (SAM) initiative, aimed at fostering growth and competitiveness in the EU, and goes hand in hand with the Common Agricultural Policy, more ...

Jun. 25, 2014

By Europa Press Room

Agriculture Leads Year of Action

National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate passed H.R. 2642, the Agricultural Act of 2014: “Family farmers and ranchers have always been willing to roll up their sleeves and do the hard work that is needed to feed, fuel and clothe our nation and our world. It is only fitting that this legislation inspired Congress to do the ...

Feb. 4, 2014

By National Farmers Union (NFU)

Chairman Roberts Hears Agricultural Perspectives on Climate Legislation

U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing on S. 3894, The Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2020. “Maintaining the health of our planet for future generations is, of course, of paramount importance. So is feeding the billions of people that populate the Earth today and in the years ahead,” said ...

Jun. 24, 2020

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

Statement by Bob Stallman, President, American Farm Bureau Federation, Regarding Launch of U.S.-EU Trade Negotiations

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 17, 2013 – “The beginning of comprehensive trade negotiations, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), between the United States and the European Union holds the promise of expanded market access and an improved, science-based regulatory approach for agriculture and food. A constant commitment to removing barriers to agricultural trade is ...

Jun. 17, 2013

By American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF)

Chairman Roberts: Replenishing the CCC Ensures Farm Bill Implementation

U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., today participated in a colloquy on the U.S. Senate floor to urge the replenishment of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC). Failure to do so would not only hurt already struggling farmers, ranchers, and growers; it would jeopardize the implementation of 2018 Farm Bill programs. Participating in the colloquy were Sens. John ...

Sep. 17, 2020

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

EPA Region 7 to Participate at National Association of Farm Broadcasting Trade talk Event Nov. 12 in Kansas City, Mo.

EPA officials will be available for interviews at the annual National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) Trade Talk event at the Westin Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, Mo., on Thursday, Nov. 12. Interview topics include the Renewable Fuel Standards, Worker Protection Standard, outreach to the agricultural community, nutrient management technologies, and regulatory updates related to ...

Nov. 9, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Brazil approves latest Forest Code

After two years of negotiations, the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has approved the country's controversial 'Forest Code'. The legislationregulates land use and allows for the creation of boundaries within which native vegetation should be preserved. Changes to the legislation were first proposed ten years ago, and a decision in March was delayed (see Delay for Brazil's Forest Code in Spanish). ...

May 1, 2012

By SciDev.Net

Farmers Union Represented at Politico Agriculture Event

National Farmers Union (NFU) Secretary and Minnesota Farmers Union President Doug Peterson presented on a panel today (on November 14, 2013) sponsored by Politico Pro Agriculture. The event was designed to be a series of conversations among policy and industry leaders exploring the future of our nation's agriculture community, the farm bill and the regulatory road ahead. “The agriculture ...

Nov. 14, 2013

By National Farmers Union (NFU)

USDA Invests in Rural Electric Infrastructure Improvements in 10 States

U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service Administrator Chad Rupe recently (8/9) announced that USDA is investing $181 million to upgrade rural electric systems in 10 states. The funding includes $7.7 million to finance smart grid technologies that improve system operations and monitor grid security."For more than eight decades, USDA has been a strong partner to rural communities in ...

Aug. 13, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer

Growing need to revamp national laws governing pesticides

Some thirty years to the day after FAO first launched its International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides, the UN food agency is calling on countries to make sure that national regulatory frameworks governing the management of pesticides are kept up to date. "Despite the very significant progress achieved since the original promulgation of the Code, many national ...

Nov. 25, 2015

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Commission welcomes the US Rule announcement to bring the US legislation in line with international standards for BSE

The European Commission welcomes the United States Department of Agriculture's(USDA) rule announcement to bring the US legislation in line with international standardsfor BSE. This will mean that EU beef and other bovine products will again be allowed for US export. The US market has been closed since January 1998 when the US imposed aban on EU beef on BSE grounds. The re-opening is a welcome, ...

Nov. 2, 2013

By Europa Press Room

New guide seeks to improve the safety of tractor-trailer braking

The Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA) have published an updated edition of the ‘Look Behind You’ guide to tractor-trailer braking today. The guide is aimed at farmers, tractor drivers, mechanics and technicians – indeed anyone using, purchasing or maintaining tractors and trailers. It seeks to raise user awareness of what is needed from tractor-trailer braking systems, in ...

Nov. 13, 2020

By Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA)

U.S. Supreme Court Denies Review of EPA Decision on Carbofuran Domestic Tolerances

The U.S. Supreme Court today denied a petition by FMC Corporation and three national grower groups for review of a lower appellate court ruling which had upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to deny an administrative hearing on the revocation of domestic tolerances for carbofuran. "We are greatly disappointed by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision not to review the lower ...

May 31, 2011

By PeroxyChem an Evonik Company

Senate passes farm bill strong on bioenergy and conservation

The US Senate Friday approved a $286 billion farm bill shepherded through by Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, who chairs the Agriculture Committee. The measure improves farm income protection and makes investments for the future in energy, conservation, nutrition and rural development initiatives. Harkin hailed passage of the Food and Energy Security Act of 2007, saying it received more votes than ...

Dec. 18, 2007

By Environment News Service (ENS)

Rooftop farming: The next steps for development

Urban agriculture is becoming increasingly popular. A recent assessment of rooftop farming in Barcelona shows differing attitudes towards the practice, and provides important recommendations for the development of agricultural policy for the 21st century, such as including food production as a potential use of rooftops in planning legislation. Urban agriculture, defined by the Food and ...

Jul. 9, 2015

By European Commission, Environment DG

Agriculture Industry Seeks to Create Right to Farm

In the nation's agricultural heartland, farming is more than a multibillion-dollar industry that feeds the world. It could be on track to become a right, written into law alongside the freedom of speech and religion. Some powerful agriculture interests want to declare farming a right at the state level as part of a wider campaign to fortify the ag industry against crusades by animal-welfare ...

Jul. 10, 2014

By Associated Press

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