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Wheat Faces a Double Challenge
By Marshall Matz, as published in Agri-Pulse. These comments were first presented to the National Association of Wheat Growers. The...
OFW Law Trial Team Wins Five Hog Nuisance Cases in Indiana
Beginning in late 2009 and early 2010, attorneys Richard Hailey of Indianapolis, Charles Speer and Britt Bieri of Kansas City,...
For Crop Insurance AIPs, a New Financial Environment
USDA’s Federal crop insurance program has benefited from a unique public-private partnership that is one of the most successful in...
John Block Reports: A Case Against Mandatory GMO Labeling
OFW Law founding principal Richard L. Frank fills in for former USDA Secretary John R. Block: Hello everybody out there...
Bernie on Agriculture
By Marshall Matz, as published in Agri-Pulse Earlier this month, I summarized the agriculture positions of the candidates for President...
Senate Agriculture Committee Approves the Improving Child Nutrition Integrity and Access Act of 2016
They did it. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) have...
Take a Look at CPSC’s Regulatory Robot
Last week the CPSC’s Office of Small Business Ombudsman unveiled a new tool to help businesses marketing new consumer products...
John Block: Dietary Guidelines
By former USDA Secretary John R. Block I asked a couple of friends of mine in Illinois and Kansas –...
“The Guidance Is Coming” . . . For Real! OCR Issues Guidance On Individuals’ Right to Access
In our last blog on medical privacy, we noted that HHS’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) promised that a number...
2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Released… And Some Thought Already Being Given to the 2020 Guidelines!
The Secretaries of Agriculture and Health and Human Services have released the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) following what...
Medical Privacy Update and 2015 Retrospective
MEDICAL PRIVACY UPDATE: New PHI Disclosures Permitted for Firearm Background Checks Earlier today, HHS published a Final Rule modifying the...
Agriculture Trumped in the Primaries
By Marshall Matz, as published in Agri-Pulse As far as politics goes, there is one and only one issue that...
2015 In Retrospect
Happy New Year, readers! Yet another year has come and gone. I hope that 2015 was a good year for...
Database for Dietary Ingredient Content of Dietary Supplements
Scientists from the Agricultural Research Service’s (ARS) Nutrient Data Laboratory, part of the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, and the...
John Block: What Did We Get Done In 2015?
By former USDA Secretary John R. Block The U.S. Congress didn’t get much done this year until December. Agriculture had...
Beef and Pork are Now Un-COOL, and That’s a Good Thing
America’s meat industry and our trading partners engaged in a collective sigh of relief on Friday. Prior to embarking on...