The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, today launched a new initiative to help consumers better understand foods created through genetic engineering, commonly called GMOs or genetically modified organisms. The initiative, “Feed Your Mind,” aims to answer the most common questions that […]
Monthly Archives: March 2020
Paid family leave (HF5) and earned sick and safe time (HF11) are back on the MN House Floor this afternoon after failing to become law in 2019. Members are to begin consideration of the proposals, which caused a great deal of debate last year, when the House meets in session at 3:30 p.m. MWFPA does […]
Narrower ag labor legislation addressing the H-2A guest worker visa program is set to be introduced by Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.), containing more-stringent provisions than the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (FWMA) passed by the House last year. MWFPA will review this legislation when it becomes available. It has supported past efforts to reform the H-2A […]
Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday appointed a former legislator as the new director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture after the former director, longtime state Sen. John Sullivan, resigned when he was found to have known in 2012 of an email from a lobbyist defending a state worker for keeping his “mouth shut” about a […]