Environment
Fertilizer runoff disproportionately harms low-income communities’ drinking water. Treatment is expensive.
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Researchers are trying to find more cost-effective solutions.
Agribusiness
The CDC recommended states prioritize farmworkers for the COVID-19 vaccine. A few large agricultural states have not.
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A few states with large agricultural populations have, so far, left farmworkers out of their COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
Government
Trump administration launches second round of coronavirus money to farmers as critics question long-term impact
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“He took actions that cost U.S. farmers a lot of money, and potentially have a lot of long-term downsides,” said Joseph Glauber, a former USDA Chief Economist and senior research fellow at the International Food Research Center. “But you can have as bad of policy as you want, if you can silence the critics by giving them a bunch of money.”
Agribusiness
General Mills launches pesticide reduction plan after traces found in cereal
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General Mills has outlined a new company approach to curbing pesticide residues in the grain used to produce its cereal and other products.
Congress
Advocacy group grades Congress on food policy
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The Washington D.C.-based advocacy group Food Policy Action released its National Food Policy Scorecard for the 114th Congress Monday. The scorecard is meant to evaluate policymakers on how they voted on “critically important” food issues from throughout the past year.