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Secretary of Agriculture choice not as difficult as farm policy

By Dan Flynn on January 6, 2017

When the bitter cold began spreading over rural America last month, the parlor guessing game around many a wood stove was guessing who President-elect Donald J. Trump would name as secretary of agriculture. But the…
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Food for Thought: Q & A with Susan Schneider

By Olivia Marler on July 16, 2012

Susan Schneider is the Director of the LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Farmers Legal Action …
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Food and Ag Leaders to Launch National Food Policy Scorecard

By News Desk on June 15, 2012

The Environmental Working Group announced on Thursday that a group of food and agriculture policy leaders are forming a new nonprofit that “for the first time will hold lawmakers in Congress accountable” for important votes…
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Health Advocates: Science on Antibiotic Resistance Is Clear

By Helena Bottemiller on March 13, 2012

Citing an increased incidence of foodborne illness outbreaks caused by antibiotic-resistant pathogens, public health advocates are again ratcheting up pressure on Congress to limit routine, subtherapeutic antibiotic use in agriculture.

At back to back briefings…

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Letter From The Editor: Ag-Gag

By Dan Flynn on March 4, 2012

Ignite a fire at a mountain-top restaurant, blow up a commercial radio tower, steal or turn livestock loose–even those mean little minks–and I am all for hunting down the perpetrators, arresting, charging and convicting them…
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Senate Potato Bloc Finds Way Around USDA

By News Desk on October 26, 2011

The question of how many spuds will be served in school lunches has been thrown to the U.S. House of Representatives by potato state Senators Mark Udall, D-CO, and Susan Collins, R-ME.

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A Rose by Any Other Name: The Food 'Dialogues'

By Alli Condra on October 4, 2011

“O, be some other name! What’s in a name? 

That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” 

– Romeo and Juliet

On Sept. 22 the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers…
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