Category Archives: Agriculture

Agriculture, U.S. Constitution, lose in California court

Posted on December 4, 2019 by matt ohern

A 72-year-old judge, Christina A. Snyder, appointed by President Clinton in 1997, handed the North American Meat Institute (NAMI) , U.S. agriculture,l and the Constitution of the United States a stunning legal defeat at a November 18, 2019 court hearing in U.S. … Continue reading →

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China Steals Seed Technology

Posted on November 18, 2019 by matt ohern

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) stated, “People in Washington and Silicon Valley are overlooking the threat of Chinese agricultural technology theft because they think that food grows in a grocery store.” In a Washington, D.C, newspaper article, Cotton claimed only President … Continue reading →

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Will California Dictate to Virginia Farmers?

Posted on November 6, 2019 by matt ohern

Early last month the North American Meat Institute (NAMI) filed a complaint against the Attorney General of California and the Secretary of California’s Department of Agriculture to stop the state’s Proposition 12 law, which flies in the face of the … Continue reading →

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A New WOTUS Regulation Coming

Posted on October 8, 2019 by matt ohern

Earlier this month, EPA’s Administrator and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works announced their agencies were repealing the Obama Administration’s 2015 promulgated rule – the one that a number of agriculture associations had accused the Obama Administration … Continue reading →

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Repeal The Jones Act

Posted on August 13, 2019 by matt ohern

By any measure, the Jones Act has been a failure.” This conclusion comes from the Cato Institute study of the Jones Act. It claims, “Under its watch [Jones Act] the U.S. shipbuilding has atrophied, the [U.S.] shipping fleet has withered, … Continue reading →

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