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

REGULATORY: Includes AMS, FSA, FWS, NOAA

Agricultural Marketing Service

Proposed rule providing an additional 30 days for public comments on the proposed rule that would amend the Lamb Promotion, Research, and Information Order. Info here.

Notice that the comment period is reopened for the notice that was published in the Federal Register on December 18, 2020. The publication invited comments on the changes that the Agricultural Marketing Service proposes to its existing mycotoxin test kit criteria. Info here.

Farm Service Agency

Correction the Farm Service Agency (FSA) amended the Farm Loan Programs Debt Settlement regulations in through a final rule published in the Federal Register on June 17, 2020. This correction is to remove a certain word that erroneously appeared in the regulation. Info here.

Fish and Wildlife Service

Proposed rule to establish the 2021-22 hunting regulations for certain migratory game birds, and make a minor change to the special procedures for issuance of annual hunting regulations. Info here.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Proposed rule to establish annual catch limits and annual catch targets for bottomfish in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and accountability measures to correct or mitigate any overages by reducing the ACL and or ACT for the subsequent year. Info here.