On its surface, the announcement that a new group has formed to lobby on behalf of plant-based consumers and business may seem innocuous enough. After all, rice is a plant that enjoys popularity not only for its worldwide dietary...
State Legislature mulls bill that addresses mislabeling of ag products.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Louisiana lawmakers are following their Arkansas counterparts and are taking up a bipartisan truth-in-labeling proposal for agricultural products.
Sen. Francis Thompson, D-Delhi, introduced Senate Bill 152, the...
Farmers are urged to complete the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2017 Census of Agriculture, which should be arriving in their mailboxes in December. The census can be returned by mail or securely submitted online.
University of Missouri Extension economist Ryan Milhollin...
Change comes to Washington, D.C.; USA Rice is ready
By Betsy Ward
President and CEO
USA Rice
Every four or eight years, the country gets a new president, and he’s usually not from the party of the sitting president. In fact, only twice in modern history...
For nearly eight hours recently, I listened to impassioned pleas from farmers, fishermen, politicians, environmentalists and the public about the California Water Resources Control Board’s proposal to nearly double the amount of free-flowing water in Stanislaus River tributaries.
Unimpaired flows...
