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Ben Lilliston
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There's a cost to farmers/animal health/food safety that comes with USDA losses in capacity.
"In Minnesota, USDA lost 21% of its 1,800 employees between fiscal year 2025 and 2026" www.startribune.com/usda-workers...
Interesting comments from Texas Ag Commissioner Sid Miller, who has been critical of USDA response: “If I get a screwworm on my place, I’m going to treat my animal and I’m not telling anybody because I don’t want to be quarantined.” www.rrfn.com/2026/06/04/m...
Ben Lilliston
NPPC going incognito in Farm Bill advocacy - www.thenewlede.org/2026/05/pork...
Ben Lilliston
Interesting the Star Tribune published a LTE parroting the big pork companies' position to overturn California's basic animal welfare law - but didn't identify the author as VP at the National Pork Producers Council. He's been this in papers around the country - www.startribune.com/readers-writ...
imp wrinkle re screwworm: the Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law warned … The Save Our Bacon Act “could nullify over 600 existing state laws, including biosecurity provisions that create state-based protections against various diseases and parasites”
sentientmedia.org/the-flesh-ea...
The DOJ has dropped assault charges against Juan Carlos Rodriguez Romero, who was accused of ramming immigration agents with his car.
An ICE agent fired multiple shots into Rodriguez Romero's car during the incident.
This year's #FarmtoSchool Grant funding supports:
đź“š 59 school districts
🧸 11 early care centers
🏡 311 family child care providers
These recipients will bring more local foods to kids while creating new markets for MN farmers. Learn more đź”— www.mda.state.mn.us/mda-awards-expand-farm-school-programs
NEW: Climate change threatens Europe's food systems. But what about the agriculture sector’s contribution to fighting the climate crisis?
Our latest from IATP Europe digs into EU ag emissions, sector-specific targets, and the potential to step up ambition for 2040. www.iatp.org/eu-agricultu...
These are the facts most everyone agrees on: Juan Carlos Rodriguez Romero pulled out of his apartment complex to start a DoorDash shift on the icy roads of St. Paul four days before Christmas, during ...
How do we transform food systems to make agroecological transitions possible on a large scale? In episode five of Agroecology Uprooted, hear from Sophia Murphy, Ernesto Mendez & Raj Patel on the policies that help agroecology thrive & what it takes to make them happen. www.iatp.org/agroecology-...
Canada has suspended imports of Texas beef. And that was before the announcement today of TWO NEW cases of New World screwworm, doubling the total to four, in different parts of the state.
farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2026/06/cana...
The Carver Center for Agriculture & Nutrition's op-eds and analyses papers fail to mention that its chairman, Andy Curliss, is also the vice president of strategic engagement for the National Pork Pro...
A warming planet and more frequent extreme weather events will change how food is produced in the European Union (EU) in 2040 and beyond. But what about the sector’s contribution to fighting the clima...
A second case of the flesh-eating New World screwworm has been confirmed in South Texas, intensifying concerns among agricultural officials and prompting Canada to suspend livestock imports from Texas...
