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Ag industry says visa program for farm labor again facing slowdowns

By Robert Holly | May 28, 2016

The American Farm Bureau Federation says farmers this year are once again waiting for the federal government to process applications requesting temporary foreign workers.

Database: Tracking Covid-19’s impact on meatpacking workers and industry

USDA photo by Preston Keres

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) meat inspectors and graders perform their mission.

Illinois billionaire Shahid Khan investing in thousands of acres of the state’s farmland

Farm acreage at the1831 2500N, Thomasboro, IL belonging to Baloo Enterpriseson Saturday, March 13, 2021. photo by Darrell Hoemann/C-U Citizen Access

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  • Opinion: EPA is wrong to allow dicamba be sprayed this growing season

    We now have an admission of guilt from EPA that it wrongly issued 2018 dicamba registrations for Bayer's XtendiMax herbicide, BASF's Engenia herbicide and Corteva's FeXapan herbicide. New acting assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention Michal Freedhoff said as much to EPA staffers in an internal e-mail on March 10 that read in part:

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