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With new Covid plan, Biden calls for OSHA to update workplace safety protections – January 22, 2021

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With new Covid plan, Biden calls for OSHA to update workplace safety protections The nation’s top workplace safety enforcer, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, will explore issuing enforceable workplace safety standards to protect workers from the spread of Covid-19 as part of President Joe Biden’s new pandemic strategy. Labor advocates and congressional Democrats have […]

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Biden proposes legal status, path to citizenship for undocumented farmworkers – January 21, 2021

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Biden proposes legal status, path to citizenship for undocumented farmworkers The estimated 1.25 million undocumented farmworkers in the United States would immediately gain legal status under the immigration reform bill unveiled by President Joe Biden on Wednesday, his first day in office. If passed, the bill would make the farmworkers eligible for green cards and, […]

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Agriculture must be part of climate change negotiations, says Farm Bureau – January 11, 2021

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Agriculture must be part of climate change negotiations, says Farm Bureau Although blamed for 10 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, agriculture has a “great track record” through land stewardship and biofuels in mitigating climate change, says Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, in looking ahead to the Biden administration. “We must […]

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Big poultry processor to pay $75 million to resolve antitrust lawsuit – January 12, 2021

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Big poultry processor to pay $ 75 million to resolve antitrust lawsuit Three months after a plea agreement with the government that included a $ 110.5 million fine, Pilgrim’s Pride, the second-largest U.S. poultry processor, said on Monday it would pay $ 75 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by its customers. Farm labor reform […]

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Over FDA objections, Trump administration says USDA can regulate GE livestock – January 20, 2021

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Over FDA objections, Trump administration says USDA can regulate GE livestock The Trump administration, in a move sought by the hog industry, pushed through an interdepartmental memorandum before leaving office that allows the USDA to regulate food-bearing GE livestock. FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn publicly objected on Tuesday and said his agency “has no intention of […]

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Highest corn and soybean prices since commodity boom, says USDA – January 13, 2021

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Highest corn and soybean prices since commodity boom, says USDA U.S. farmers, who harvested some of their largest corn and soybean crops ever last fall, will reap the highest season-average prices for the crops since the heady days of the commodity boom that ended in worldwide surpluses seven years ago, said the government on Tuesday. […]

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FDA cool to USDA push to regulate GE livestock – January 14, 2021

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After refusing to overturn election, five House ag panelists oppose impeachment Although they defied President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, five Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee voted on Wednesday against impeaching Trump for inciting the deadly mob attack on the Capitol last week. They said that impeachment was divisive and hasty, […]

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iden chooses Virginia ag commissioner for deputy secretary at USDA – January 19, 2021

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iden chooses Virginia ag commissioner for deputy secretary at USDA A day before his inauguration, President-elect Biden selected Jewel Bronaugh, the Virginia state agriculture commissioner, as his nominee for deputy agriculture secretary, the No. 2 post at USDA. Bronaugh would be the first Black deputy secretary at USDA. After two years of work, USDA publishes […]

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Farm sector rebounding but may need more aid, says Duvall – January 15, 2021

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Farm sector rebounding but may need more aid, says Duvall The farm economy, battered since 2018 by a trade war and a pandemic, is rallying, though it is too early to declare a return to prosperity, said the president of the largest U.S. farm organization on Thursday, reserving judgment on whether more stopgap federal aid […]

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Food workers should be prioritized for vaccine – January 18, 2021

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(AG Insider) Workers in food distribution, production, and logistics who are employed by temporary staffing agencies and other subcontractors should be prioritized for early access to the Covid-19 vaccine alongside other food system workers, argues a new report focused on the Chicago labor force. States are generally planning to allocate the vaccine to agricultural, grocery, […]

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  • Agriculture must be part of climate change negotiations, says Farm Bureau – January 11, 2021
  • Big poultry processor to pay $75 million to resolve antitrust lawsuit – January 12, 2021
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