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Members of the Pennsylvania House Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee on Thursday announced that the Wolf administration agreed in an email to re-open the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex.
The email arrived Tuesday, minutes before the start of a press conference convened by committee members Reps. Dave Zimmerman (R-Lancaster), Dan Moul (R-Adams), Clint Owlett (R- Bradford/Potter/Tioga) and John Hershey (R-Franklin/Juniata/Mifflin) to discuss the status of the 2021 Keystone International Livestock Exposition, which is set for Oct. 1 at the Farm Show Complex.
Scranton Times-Tribune. May 3, 2021. Editorial: Pass Yaw bill to help farms get greener Pennsylvania has fallen far behind the pollution reduction goals it has agreed to in the multi-state and federal effort to revive Chesapeake Bay.
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Boris Johnson initially extolled the deal saying it was one that “if anything should allow our companies and our exporters to do even more business with our European friends”.
The fishing industry is counting the cost of Brexit.
The reality is, of course, completely different as can be seen from evidence given to the Committee from across the food industry.
Scotland Food and Drink said that “as an example of political mismanagement of expectations on the impact of a policy choice, this may have no parallel”, contending that there was a “fundamental lack of honesty” during the transition period on the ‘scale of non-tariff barriers’.
Brexit cost seafood firms alone an estimated £1 million a day and left premium cargo to spoil SCOTLAND’S iconic flagship food and drink sector is “swimming against the tide” as the UK formally leaves the EU customs union, it is claimed. The new Brexit trade pact with the European Union comes into force today, four months since the end of the transition period on January 1. That change plunged Scots exporters into major turmoil, costing seafood firms alone an estimated £1 million a day and leaving premium cargo to spoil as red-tape delays blocked transit to big-money markets in France, Spain and Italy.
MEMBERS of Parliament have called for urgent action to remove export barriers four months into the disastrous hard Brexit engineered and executed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his associates. The MPs wrote that “businesses exporting seafood and meat to the European Union have faced substantial new red tape requirements and checks at the border, known as non-tariff barriers, where previously there were none”. It is lamentable that the border records system is not digitised, and that the wrong colour of ink on a form could lead to problems of the kind that end with full shipments being lost. The Brexit Impact Report came from the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, and it stated that despite having some knowledge Brexit was coming, the Government’s guidance was “not sufficiently timely, targeted or joined-up”. Six of the cross-party committee s 11 members are Tories, incidentally.