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New committee meets in bid to reform 'wasteful' food corporation
2014-09-11 15:31:31| Agriculture - Topix.net
A high-level committee has met for the first time to investigate a restructure of the often-beleaguered Food Corporation of India as the food-grains authority looks to strengthen and integrate its supply chain. The FCI is the government agency charged with procuring and distributing grain, and is central to India's Food Security Act, which was brought in by the former Congress-led government to supply discounted commodities to at least 800m of the country's poor.
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Checkoff Reform On The Way, Vows USDA Secretary Vilsack
2014-09-11 01:40:49| Beef
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has vowed to reform the checkoff, after the National Farmers Union announced its self-removal from the working group for the program. What changes are necessary to make the checkoff more effective? Todays blog discusses some of those issues. BEEF Daily read more
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Beware of the Trojan Horse Labelled COOL ‘Reform’
2014-09-08 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson argues in a recent Politico op-ed that the opponents of Country-of-Origin Labelling (COOL), having lost their battles on both the ideological front as well as in the courts, are now trying have the law gutted in the name of ‘reform.”
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Farmers Warn of Trojan Horse Labelled COOL ‘Reform’
2014-09-08 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson argues in a recent Politico op-ed that the opponents of Country-of-Origin Labelling (COOL), having lost their battles on both the ideological front as well as in the courts, are now trying have the law gutted in the name of ‘reform.”
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"Environmental tort reform"
2014-08-27 12:45:56| Waste Management - Topix.net
After failing in their attempt to limit cities and counties' ability to take industrial polluters to court, some Houston businesses and statewide lobbyists now want to limit how much local governments can collect in penalties, a sort of environmental tort reform effort aimed squarely at a Harris County Attorney's office they say is seeking ... (more)
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