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Letter Imploring EPA to Allow Farmers to Maintain Access to the Pesticide Dicamba

NASDA

Representing State Lead Agencies in 43 states, NASDA members are tasked with numerous elements of pesticide regulation that are immediately impacted by this decision, including the administration, implementation, and enforcement of the production, labeling, distribution, sale, use, and disposal of pesticides under FIFRA.

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Letter Urging Administration to Protect Crop Insurance in Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Proposal

NASDA

As the challenges for America’s farmers and ranchers continue to grow, we believe crop insurance as a safety net is only becoming more important to stability in rural America and a secure domestic food supply. USDA and Congress have taken extraordinary ad hoc measures over the past few years to ensure the financial security of rural America.

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Letter Regarding the Need for a Miscellaneous Tariff Bill

NASDA

The lack of a renewal is harming manufacturers of all domestic industries, significantly raising costs and impacting products and jobs and especially impacting small and medium-sized businesses as they pay more for product inputs. manufacturing and research and development. businesses and their customers have paid over $1.5

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Will a Food and Ag Focus at COP28 Distract From the Fossil Fuel Economy?

Civil Eats

Estrella “Esther” Penunia, the secretary general of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development, called consolidation a “big problem” and talked about transforming the food system to “shift the power to the people.” In May, Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, the U.A.E.’s working alongside U.S.

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Industry Ag News 2/9

Agwired

consumers are paying more for chocolate products as confection manufacturers raise prices in response to the soaring cost of cocoa. Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) announced the appointment of Dr. Laura R. Agri-Pulse welcomed CHS as the platinum sponsor for the 2024 Ag & Food Policy Summit focused on “Revitalizing Rural Revenues.”

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Commentary: America’s Cropland – Talk Is Cheap When It Comes to Sustainability or Organic Farming

Daily Yonder

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields.

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Precision Ag News 5/31

Agwired

It will create jobs and spur economic growth in rural communities by increasing competition in agricultural markets. AmegA Sciences and React Industries are private label manufacturers which serve the agricultural, horticultural, turf and ornamental industries as well as the wider plant health sectors, both domestically and internationally.

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