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27 Jul 2018
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Thursday said the FDA intends to make decisions about the labeling of cow's milk and plant-based milk "in relation to potential public health consequences" as part of its program to modernize standards of identity. In a state...
27 Jul 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The second day of the Wheat Quality Council's Hard Red Spring and Durum Wheat Tour wrapped up with an average hard red spring wheat yield of 41.3 bushels per acre (bpa), up from 35.8 bpa last year. The tour visited 135 spring wheat fields and 13 durum fields. Durum fields averaged 39.2 b...
27 Jul 2018
By John HarringtonDTN Livestock Analyst Several weeks ago, Joni Ernst, junior senator, Iowa, was being questioned by the moderator of CBS' "Face The Nation" on the topic of trade war and the significant price the Trump administration's policy was extracting from pork producers and soybean farmers in her red/purple state. With the steeled gaze of so...
26 Jul 2018
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Having an opinion on agricultural issues is typically not a problem. Finding a platform to effectively speak out on those topics is another matter. This week DTN's View From the Cab contributors continued to monitor the crop growing conditions, but also on their mind...
26 Jul 2018
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C., (DTN) -- Coalitions of farm groups are at odds over whether the House should vote this week on a bill introduced last week by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., to replace the H-2A visa program with an agricultural guest-worker program, known as the H-2C program. A...