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The Cannabis Industry’s Own Private Idaho: State Court Upholds Seizure of Truckload of Hemp Bound for Colorado

Big Sky Scientific is a Montana-based manufacturer of hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) products, including isolate powders, oils, and distillates. Big Sky...

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New Year Down on the Farm

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. We still have some snow on the ground at our farm in Illinois,...

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Issues of the Day

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. I think we are all aware that many countries in Africa have a...

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Busy Week

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week were something for the record books. On...

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American Farm Bureau and More

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. Farmers and the whole agriculture industry fought through 2019, a very brutal year....

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The Issues of the Day

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. The ag industry is excited as a number of trade deals are coming...

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Look Back and Ahead

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. It’s a New Year. 2020 got here so fast. I want to look...

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Exciting Week

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. Just when I had concluded that we couldn’t get anything done here in...

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Farm Economy and More

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. I want to cover some trade issues today, but first let’s take a...

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Oh SNAP! FNS Removes All Names from the SAM List

GSA’s System for Award Management is a comprehensive database of persons excluded from doing business with the federal government. Widely...

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Challenges We Face

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. I have a number of subjects I will put on the table today....

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Trade Deals

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. All we hear about are the trade deals we can’t get completed. Our...

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Initial NFP Compliance Date – 6 Months Enforcement Discretion

In response to requests received from multiple stakeholders, FDA has agreed, in effect, to exercise enforcement discretion relative to the...

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Rough Road We Ride

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. We are all quite aware that the Ag Industry has had it tough...

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This & That

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. The meat industry in the U.S. has been shaken by the explosion of...

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Harvest

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. Last week I was on the farm. Looking out over the fields of...

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GE Salmon

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. I will be on our farm in Illinois later in the week. We...

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Farm Safety Week

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. Ever since the past administration rewrote the WOTUS (Waters of the U.S.) rule,...

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Today’s Issues

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. They are back. House Members and Senators, after a long summer recess, are...

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Trade and GE Tech

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. As much as we would like to – the Ag industry can not...

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Ag Industry

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. We keep reading that unless we increase farm production, we won’t be able...

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Budget Deal

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. There were a lot of doubters, including myself, but it looks like we...

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Oh, SNAP! Federal District Court Judge Orders FNS to Remove Owner of SNAP Retailer’s Name from the SAM List

The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Not surprisingly, that means...

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Trade

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block. Some listeners might get tired of hearing about trade disputes. Why are they...

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