Category: Top Industry Issues

During this week’s Potato Association of America Certification Section Meeting in Washington, D.C., representatives from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced its process for developing, finalizing, and implementing...

The National Potato Council joined ag industry organizations in submitting letters and comments to the Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security questioning aspects of a new proposed...

WASHINGTON – The National Potato Council (NPC) today announced its opposition to Rep. Victoria Spartz’s (R-Ind.) amendment to the House FY 2024 Agriculture Appropriations Bill that would undermine or...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance (SCFBA), a national coalition of more than 200 specialty crop organizations representing growers of fruits, vegetables, dried fruit, tree nuts,...

Kam Quarles, CEO for the National Potato Council, provided oral testimony during the Sept. 12, 2023, hearing of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. This panel of nutrition and...

This week we chatted about the formulation of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) and how the U.S. potato industry is working to ensure that the accurate facts...

On Aug. 29, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of the Army (the agencies) announced a final rule amending the definition of “waters of the...

USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced on August 23 that it has awarded more than $2.6 million in Fiscal Year 2023 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) funding for...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) today announced it has completed its investigation related to the 2021 detections of potato wart in Prince Edward Island (PEI)....