The Animal Agriculture and Water Quality (AAWQ) subcommittee is seeking comments on its recent public meetings and to inform its overall directive, which is to “provide recommendations that will inform EPA’s decisions regarding how to improve the implementation of the Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation permitting program to more effectively…

Farmer/advocate pitches ‘regenerative agriculture’ practices during farm tour Christensen says such practices can reduce nitrate pollution in groundwater and rivers, resulting in healthier soil for future generations By: Paul Hammel – August 20, 2024 Graham Christensen explains the regenerative agriculture practices employed at his family’s farm east of Lyons to produce crops with less intensive…

Harris: ‘I will go after the bad actors’ who unfairly drive up food prices By Chuck Abbott, August 18, 2024 At the same time that she pledged “the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food,” Vice President Kamala Harris said she would help the food industry become more competitive. “As president, I will take…

Harris: ‘I will go after the bad actors’ who unfairly drive up food prices By Chuck Abbott, August 18, 2024 At the same time that she pledged “the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food,” Vice President Kamala Harris said she would help the food industry become more competitive. “As president, I will take…

Harris: ‘I will go after the bad actors’ who unfairly drive up food prices By Chuck Abbott, August 18, 2024 At the same time that she pledged “the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food,” Vice President Kamala Harris said she would help the food industry become more competitive. “As president, I will take…

Harris: ‘I will go after the bad actors’ who unfairly drive up food prices By Chuck Abbott, August 18, 2024 At the same time that she pledged “the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food,” Vice President Kamala Harris said she would help the food industry become more competitive. “As president, I will take…

Harris: ‘I will go after the bad actors’ who unfairly drive up food prices By Chuck Abbott, August 18, 2024 At the same time that she pledged “the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food,” Vice President Kamala Harris said she would help the food industry become more competitive. “As president, I will take…

Harris: ‘I will go after the bad actors’ who unfairly drive up food prices By Chuck Abbott, August 18, 2024 At the same time that she pledged “the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food,” Vice President Kamala Harris said she would help the food industry become more competitive. “As president, I will take…

Sander McComiskey Modern antitrust laws have always empowered federal enforcers to scrutinize any aspect of how companies compete — or don’t compete — with each other. In recent years, however, enforcers have focused almost entirely on formal merger proposals, only rarely examining partnerships, licensing deals, minority investments, and similar arrangements. But a promising set of Federal…

July 30, 2024 National Beef Packing Company is the latest food company to announce a settlement in an ongoing wage-fixing lawsuit, according to a notice filed in federal court Monday. The terms of the settlement have yet to be released as part of an ongoing lawsuit that alleged a group of food companies conducted “secret”…