Rural Communities

Iowa Starting Line

No, California Isn’t Banning Bacon, but new Rule Could Have Iowa Impact

By Ty Rushing

No, California isn’t banning bacon or withholding ham from its residents.

However, the Golden State is restricting where its swine comes from via Proposition 12. This measure is why it has...

Farm Progress

Senators step up to prevent ag trade suppression

EATS Act prohibits states and local governments from regulating production or manufacturing standards to other states.

By Jacqui Fatka

As the courts continue to uphold the state of California from imposing its production standards on...

Meat+Poultry

Proposed legislation to limit use of ‘Product of USA’ label

By Erica Shaffer

WASHINGTON – US Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are backing a law that would limit the “Product of USA” label to beef sourced from cattle that are born, raised and slaughtered...

Progressive Farmer

GOP Senators Introduce Bill to Stop California's Prop 12

By Jerry Hagstrom
 
The National Pork Producers Council has been pushing back against California's law prohibiting the sale of food products from confined animals. Some Republican senators have introduced a bill trying to...

WJTV-TV Jackson

Committee approves $20.7M to advance Yazoo Backwater Area Project

By Kaitlin Howell

WASHINGTON (WJTV) – On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) announced the Senate Appropriations Committee passed an appropriations measure that includes funding to support flood...

Delta Council E-News

Senate Committee Approves $20.7 Million to Advance Yazoo Pumps

Upper Yazoo Projects, Delta Headwaters also see Increase

U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith announced committee passage of an appropriations measure that includes funding to support flood control and water...

Natchez Democrat

Full five-state Interstate 14 project added to Bipartisan Infrastructure Package
 
By Jan Griffey

NATCHEZ — On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved an amendment adding congressional authorization of the full Interstate-14 five-state corridor expansion to the pending...

The Epoch Times

Nomination to Director of Bureau of Land Management Inspires Tree Spiking Mitigation Act

By Nathan Worcester

On July 28, Senators James Risch (R-Idaho) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) introduced S.2506, the Tree Spiking Mitigation Act of 2021. The act is inspired by the nomination of...

KTTN-FM Trenton, Mo.

Coalition of 33 lawmakers introduce bill to uphold Navigable Water Protection Rule

By KTTN News

U.S. Senator Roy Blunt announced that he has joined U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and 31 of their Senate...