The Farm Bill is kaput.
Congress has failed to extend or replace the 2018 Farm Bill by the Sept. 30 deadline, meaning it has expired.
Officially known as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, the 2018 farm bill is the most recent omnibus farm bill. It contained 12 titles. In
Continue Reading Time runs out for the Farm Bill
The U.S. House Agriculture Committee has approved a bill that would put an end to state-level laws regulating the labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food. The bill, H.R. 1599, or the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015, would require a national standard for labeling laws
Continue Reading Bill Banning State GMO-Labeling Laws Moves to House Floor
All six witnesses at Tuesday’s House Committee on Agriculture hearing argued against mandatory biotechnology labeling laws. Most of their testimony praised the efficiency they believe GE crops provide to farmers and enumerated the costs they say labeling would inflict on farmers, manufacturers and consumers. 
But they also brought up the
Continue Reading Witnesses Tell House Agriculture Committee GE Foods are Safe, Don’t Need Labels
Once my congressman was Tom Foley (D-WA). At the time, he also chaired the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture (1975-81). That was fortunate for me because, at the time, I was a daily newspaper reporter assigned to cover the second-largest county in Foley’s eastern Washington district. After the Land Grant
Continue Reading Letter From the Editor: Remembering Thomas S. Foley, 1929-2013
