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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has urged his Brazilian counterpart Carlos Favaro to address timely disease reporting in Brazil in order to continue to access the U.S. market. The
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And five of the 35 House Republicans who voted to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol are on the ballot today.
Agribusiness group readies to lobby on climate change A coalition of agribusiness and environmental groups focused on climate policy has formally registered to lobby. The big picture: The Biden administration is vowing to boost the Agriculture Department's work on climate change. The latest: The Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance (FACA) has tapped the Russell Group, a newly public filing shows. Lobbyists include Karla Thieman. She held senior Agriculture Department roles during President Obama's second term and before that worked in Congress. Why it matters: FACA, which launched in Novemb...
by Tyne Morgan (Farm Journal AgWeb) As a possible policy shift may put sustainable farming practices in the spotlight, companies are already paying farmers to shift to more “climate smart farming” like utilizing no-till as a production method. — … “Tom Vilsack will be integral to President-Elect Biden on climate change, which will be an important feature of this administration,” says Michael Dykes, CEO of International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA). “He knows what it takes to implement those things all the way down to the farm level, and how to do these kinds of things...