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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.

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  • #AgAlerts: Atrazine; salmonella; Russian soybeans

    A roundup of news, reports, and research on agribusiness and related issues. EPA weakens safeguards for weed killer Atrazine, linked to birth defects | Civileats.com    The Trump administration plans to weaken environmental safeguards for atrazine, the second most widely used herbicide in the U.S., even though it’s known to castrate frogs and is linked to birth defects and cancer in humans and animals.

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  • Opinion: Courts to bring some objectivity to GMO labels … and it’s about time

    In recent years there's been a significant shift in how the public views consuming genetically modified organisms.   A 2018 Pew Research Center report showed that 49% of U.S. adults believe foods containing GMOs are worse for one's health than foods with no GMO ingredients.  The same report showed just five (cinco, cinque, fem, itsu, wu, chamisha) percent – yeah 5%  – say GMO foods are better for one's health.  But what's more important is the trend.  The 2018 report showed people saying foods with GMO ingredients are worse for one's health was ten percentage points higher than the 2016 Pew Research Center report. So it's not surprising to me that food manufacturers are eager and anxious to jump on the non-GM0 bandwagon.  The no-GMO label gold standard comes from the Non-GMO Project, an independent organization that verifies products.

From the USDA

  • Brazil’s Implementation of Tariff Rate Quota for Wheat a Win for American Farmers

    Washington, D.C., November 14, 2019 - U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue welcome Brazil's implementation of an annual duty-free tariff rate quota (TRQ) of 750,000 metric tons (MT) of wheat imports. For many years, Brazil failed to implement its obligation under the WTO to establish a TRQ for wheat.

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