• April 4, 2016
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According to Boulder Public Radio, Boulder County authorities may soon prohibit farmers from growing genetically engineered crops on county-owned farmland. Last...

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• April 4, 2016
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The United States Department of Agriculture recently announced an investment of over $5.2 million to support nanotechnology research at 11 universities....

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• April 1, 2016
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A federal court in Florida ruled against a small creamery earlier this week preventing them from labeling their skimmed milk product “skim...

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• March 31, 2016
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The Denver Post reports that the Colorado Senate Agriculture, Natural Resources and Energy Committee passed a bill this week to legalize...

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• March 29, 2016
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The Baltimore Sun reports the Maryland senate passed a bill earlier this month that would ban stores from selling products laced...

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• March 28, 2016
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According to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Assemblyman David Chiu has proposed a food labeling measure, AB 2725, designed to give...

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• March 28, 2016
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Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Tyson Foods over the company’s challenge to a nearly $5.8 million class action...

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• March 23, 2016
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According to the Storm Lake Times, the Iowa Farm Bureau and other commodity groups are paying legal fees for county drainage...

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• March 22, 2016
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The nation’s chief agricultural trade negotiator, Darci Vetter, will speak March 29 in Little Rock about the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, a...

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• March 21, 2016
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A Wisconsin court recently ruled that the state’s the right to farm law protects agricultural uses and practices only from actions...

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• March 17, 2016
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In Woody v. Pembina County Annual Fair Exhibition Ass’n, the North Dakota Supreme Court recently affirmed a district court’s ruling that...

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• March 16, 2016
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Pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the EPA recently announced its intent to cancel the registration of...

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• March 15, 2016
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Arkansas Secretary of Agriculture Wes Ward will deliver the keynote address, “Agricultural Trade with Cuba,” at the Third Annual Agricultural and...

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• March 15, 2016
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The Lincoln Star Journal reports Nebraska state legislators are considering a proposed constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to “engage in farming and ranching...

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• March 10, 2016
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The Register-Guard reports that organizers in Oregon hope to put a measure on the November ballot banning aerial spraying of herbicides...

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• March 10, 2016
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Capital Press reports that Washington’s attorney general Bob Ferguson filed suit against Food Democracy Action, a group that campaigned for GMO labels...

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• March 10, 2016
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The Juneau Empire reports that U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced a bill last week requiring all genetically engineered salmon to...

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• March 8, 2016
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According to the Capital Press website, House and Senate lawmakers in the state of Washington approved Senate Bill 6206 establishing regulations...

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• March 8, 2016
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A South Dakota bill that changes the way county zoning is done for Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) has cleared a...

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• March 8, 2016
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Environmentalists in San Francisco filed a lawsuit last month over thousands of cattle in the Point Reyes National Seashore. The suit...

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