Ag Policy News

• Crop Insurance Cuts: Will You Be Affected?
  
  05/24/2013
  Senators approved a measure to pull back premiums for producers with adjusted gross incomes above $750,000, reports say.
• High-Profile Probes Create Cooling-Off Period for Immigration Proposals
  
  05/23/2013
  IRS, AP and Benghazi investigations divert attention from immigration reform bills.
• U.S. Tightens Country-of-Origin Meat Labeling After WTO Ruling
  
  05/23/2013
  The U.S. tightened country-of-origin labeling provisions to specify where animals are born, raised and slaughtered.
• Immigration Reform: Landscape of California Agriculture at Stake
  
  05/22/2013
  The Senate Judiciary Committee has passed its version of Immigration Reform. American Farm Bureau told AgDay while several amendments were passed; the 844-page bill remains largely untouched.
• Top Ten Political Issues Facing Agriculture
  
  05/22/2013
  Former deputy ag secretary Kathleen Merrigan highlights the top non-farm-bill issues that are currently impacting agriculture.
• Immigration Reform: California Farmers Say Labor Is at Stake
  
  05/21/2013
  While some in Washington are calling for more border security, farmers in California say such a measure would force their acres out of production.
• Dickrell: Is the Dairy Debate Asking The Wrong Question?
  
  05/20/2013
  Here's what the real focus should be, say two young and very smart dairy economists.
• Immigration Encounters Business-Labor Rift that Undid 2007 Bill
  
  05/20/2013
  Movement in both the House and Senate on revising U.S. immigration law belies a long-running rift between business and labor that could derail the bill.

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