A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE.

REGULATORY: Includes AMS, EPA, RBS

Agricultural Marketing Service

Proposed rule to implement a recommendation from the California Walnut Board to decrease the assessment rate established for the 2020-21 and subsequent marketing years. Info here.

Final rule implementing a recommendation from the Administrative Committee for Pistachios to increase the assessment rate established for the 2020-21 and subsequent production years. Info here.

Environmental Protection Agency

Notice announcing the availability of EPA’s proposed interim registration review decisions and opens a 60-day public comment period on the proposed interim decisions for the following pesticides: Creosote; chromated arsenicals and dichromic acid, disodium salt, dehydrate; and pentachlorophenol. Info here.

Final rule establishing tolerances for residues of picarbutrazox in or on multiple commodities. Info here.

Rural Business-Cooperative Service

Notice that the application deadline for the Value-Added Producer Grant program has been extended, increasing available total funding for the program; allowing for application submission through email; eliminating the awarding of points for the Level of Commitment category specified in Section 1(c) of the original notice, and allowing for a reduced cost share match of 10 percent of the grant amount for the $35 million in COVID-19 relief funds. Info here.