Category: Top Industry Issues

At a U.S. Senate Finance Committee hearing on Thursday on the topic of President Biden’s 2023 trade policy agenda, Members of the Committee pressed U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine...

This week, NPC joined a letter to House and Senate leadership in support of the Safer Highways and Increased Performance for Interstate Trucking Act (SHIP IT). According to the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Potato Council (NPC) today announced the release of Measuring the Economic Significance of the U.S. Potato Industry, a comprehensive analysis on the domestic economic...

(Feb. 1, 2023) – 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...

Last week, an advisory panel created in the wake of a political firestorm over the PEI potato wart crisis submitted a report to the Canadian federal government. This panel...

Despite the efforts of many in U.S. agriculture and Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), a last-ditch attempt to pass ag labor reform on the Omnibus Spending bill failed on Thursday....

On Tuesday morning, the details of a $1.7 trillion Omnibus Appropriations Bill to fund the federal government for FY23 was released and included provisions vital to the future of...

Yesterday at a press conference held in the Capitol Building, the National Potato Council endorsed legislation introduced by Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet that improves upon the House-passed Farm...

This week, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced to the U.S. their intention to “modernize” the Long Term Management Plan that is intended to deal with potato wart on...