Stern Truths

● Last Friday, I attended a breakfast meeting in Yakima hosted by the William D. Ruckelshaus Center's advisory board. (The

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● Max Baucus (D/Montana) announced on Tuesday he will not run for re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2014. Senator

● This week provided a spike of activity on three major agricultural policy fronts: food safety, immigration reform, and the

● The May 16 deadline looms for public comments on two of the proposed rules implementing the Food Safety Modernization

Our tree fruits often find themselves featured in the logos designed for special events. Some current examples: peach for this

One of the federal sequestration cuts is the suspension by USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service of several reports, including the

● This past Sunday I arrived back from Barcelona, Spain. There, I had attended the 2013 Global Food Safety Conference,

● Sequestration is set to go into effect on March 1. I do not see this action being averted, so

● A powerful court decision handed down this past Friday involving Noel Canning and the National Labor Relations Board made

● The Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology and Foreign Agricultural Service of the House Agriculture Committee is now led by