Category: Top Industry Issues

WASHINGTON – The National Potato Council released the following statement after the U.S. House Agriculture Committee favorably reported out The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024: “The National...

Long-time potato industry champion U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced this week that she received a call from USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack who told her the “USDA will officially...

On April 24, 2024, USDA released its final rule overhauling its school breakfast and lunch programs, limiting sugar and further reducing sodium levels in meals. Notably for the potato...

On March 26, U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) led a bipartisan group of 14 Senators in writing to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Thomas...

The House and Senate last week released the Fiscal Year 2024 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies appropriations bill text, providing $26.3 billion in discretionary...

In its latest comments to the committee working on recommendations that will form the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, NPC this week called on the group to consider modeling...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday scrapped a plan opposed by farm groups to mandate the tracking of greenhouse gas emissions in company supply chains, all the way...

The National Potato Council today submitted feedback to EPA, USDA, and FDA in response to the “Draft National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics,” which...

NPC submitted public comments to CFIA’s risk management documents, noting the severity of the consequences should potato wart be transmitted to the United States.