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2024 Organic Week – Charting Organic’s Way Forward

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Washington, D.C. (April 18, 2024) — The Organic Trade Association is pleased to be hosting Organic Week, its annual flagship event, on May 14-16 in Washington, D.C., featuring two days of critical discussions on the issues and opportunities facing the organic sector and a day of advocating for organic on Capitol Hill. The event offers the organic […]

BLM Rule Threatens Multiple Use Management of Public Lands

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WASHINGTON (April 18, 2024) – Today, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and Public Lands Council (PLC) expressed serious concerns about the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) final “Conservation and Landscape Health” rule that reimagines the agency’s requirements to manage lands for multiple uses, including livestock grazing. “The BLM has a statutory responsibility to ensure multiple […]

Two Grange Members Seated on National Advisory Groups

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WASHINGTON, DC – The National Grange is pleased to announce that President Christine E. Hamp has nominated two members to appointments for nationwide industry and governmental advisement groups on behalf. Marilyn Blasingame will serve as the National Grange representative to the Alliance for Women’s Health and Prevention (AWHP) Advisory Council, and Matt Peterson will represent the Grange […]

BLM Public Lands Rule – Trout Unlimited Statement

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ARLINGTON, Va.— Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalized the Public Lands Rule, which gives the agency a framework to promote ecosystem resilience on public lands and waters by identifying and prioritizing lands for protection and restoration, encouraging conservation investments, and putting conservation on equal footing with other uses of public lands. “The new Public […]

Wheat Groups Welcome New Funding for Food Assistance

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ARLINGTON, Virginia (April 18, 2024) – U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) and the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) are pleased that U.S. wheat farmers can help increase global food assistance under a new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funding program announced today. USDA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will invest $1 billion in Commodity Credit […]

FFAR Grant Unites Urban Agriculture Operations to Increase Food Security

Posted today at 9:02am

NEW YORK CITY (April 18, 2024) – The number of urban food programs seeking to create greater food resiliency and equity in New York City increased during the COVID-19 pandemic to support overstressed food supply chains. This urban agriculture community is fragmented, with little understanding of who is growing food and how it is being […]

Six National Commodity Groups Call on U.S. International Trade Commission to Nix Petition Related to Duties on Herbicides

Posted today at 8:50am

Six of the nation’s major commodity groups, including the National Corn Growers Association, sent a letter to the U.S. International Trade Commission today encouraging it to vote negative in advancing a petition by Corteva Agribusiness to place antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of the herbicide 2,4-D shipped from India and China. The letter, signed by […]

Sen. Hoeven Pushing For Reconsideration Of Liquid Natural Gas Export Ban

Posted today at 7:06am

(Bismarck, ND) — North Dakota Senator John Hoeven is urging federal regulators to allow for more natural gas exports. He wants the Biden administration to reverse its ban on new liquefied natural gas export approvals, saying the exports are not only valuable at home, but also to our country’s allies in Europe and Asia, who […]

Grassley: Farm Bill the Only Option for Cattle Market Reform Bill

Posted today at 7:04am

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) says the only option to move forward with a bill to reform cattle markets is through the farm bill. Grassley has long supported legislation such as the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act, however, he says the farm bill is the only option for the legislation. Grassley says, “It’s something that […]

AFBF to USDA: Restore NASS Surveys

Posted today at 7:02am

The American Farm Bureau urged USDA to reverse its decision to cancel livestock and crop surveys that are crucial to the success of America’s farmers and ranchers. The National Agricultural Statistics Service recently announced it would no longer provide a July cattle inventory survey, as well as county-level estimates for crops and livestock and the […]

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Ag News

2024 Organic Week – Charting Organic’s Way Forward

BLM Rule Threatens Multiple Use Management of Public Lands

Two Grange Members Seated on National Advisory Groups

BLM Public Lands Rule – Trout Unlimited Statement

Wheat Groups Welcome New Funding for Food Assistance

FFAR Grant Unites Urban Agriculture Operations to Increase Food Security

Six National Commodity Groups Call on U.S. International Trade Commission to Nix Petition Related to Duties on Herbicides

Sen. Hoeven Pushing For Reconsideration Of Liquid Natural Gas Export Ban

Grassley: Farm Bill the Only Option for Cattle Market Reform Bill

AFBF to USDA: Restore NASS Surveys

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