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Conservation, Environment & Wildlife
USDA Sets New Climate Change Goals, Asks Ag Producers to Join in Effort Agri-Pulse
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack presented the details of his agency's new plan to reduce carbon emissions and bolster carbon sequestration to achieve a combined 120 million metric tons of CO2 mitigation per year by 2025.
Health and Nutrition
Dr. Oz and GMOs: When Controversial Meets Controversy Fortune
The recent furor over TV host and cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Oz has rekindled the controversy over genetically modified organisms.
Science and Technology
Options for Better Control of Resistant Weeds in Rice Delta Farm Press
If you can get planted, rain is making herbicide activation easy. Make every effort to keep "sprayed up" on everything planted.
Tariffs and Trade
Canada Threatens Heavy Tax on Arkansas Products KATV
Dow Brantley, like other Arkansas rice farmers, spent his day planting in the fields, all the while the threat of a tariff on his livelihood in the back of his mind.
Fast-Track Bills Head to House, Senate Floor; Obama Recruits Democratic Base Agri-Pulse
The House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday night approved, a Trade Promotion Authority bill one day after the Senate Finance Committee advanced its version of the legislation.
Japan Farmers Cultivate Rice's Mystique as Barrier to Deal Bloomberg
U.S. rice producers say Japan's offer is insufficient and want "a significant improvement in the quantity and quality of access" to the Japanese market, said Michael Klein, a spokesman for the Arlington, Virginia-based USA Rice Federation. "What is apparently being offered by the third largest economy in the world is far beneath the ambition of the TPP," he said.
U.S.,Peru Celebrate Increase in Agricultural Trade Agri-Pulse
Peru is also providing market access for U.S. rough and brown rice while APHIS is finalizing technical discussions to gain market access for U.S. live cattle and beef.
From PoliticoPro
By Helena Bottemiller Evich
U.S. rice has reappeared on shelves of mainstream U.K. supermarkets after a nine-year absence in the wake of unapproved biotech varieties discovered in U.S. exports, according to the USA Rice Federation. The group took some credit, saying the new acceptance of U.S. rice came after its members flew to London last October to meet with retailers, importers, millers and wholesalers.
The U.S. rice sector has been campaigning for years to assure European and other markets that there is no biotech rice left in the U.S. supplies. EU rice imports from the U.S. sank from 275,000 tons in 2005 to just 100,000 tons in 2006, the year that Bayer CropScience's unapproved biotech Liberty Link 601 rice was found in U.S. rice supplies, according to USDA data. By 2013, U.S. rice exports to the EU had sunk to just 177 tons.
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