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TOP HEADLINES
State Question 777 with Tom Buchanan:
Oklahoma Farm Bureau President Tom Buchanan discusses SQ 777, the Right to Farm amendment, on the Pat Campbell Show on KFAQ in Tulsa [KFAQ].
Activists pushing Massachusetts ban on eggs from some farm animals:
Animal rights activists are facing little organized opposition as they push a ballot question that would ban the sale of eggs and other food products in Massachusetts that come from farms where animals are confined to overly restrictive cages [WCVB].
FEDERAL
Biotech execs to testify on mergers:
Top executives from all five agrochemical and seed companies looking to merge are set to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee today in an effort to reassure lawmakers that the quickly developing consolidation trend won’t be bad news for farmers [Politico].
Monsanto, Bayer execs to testify before Senate panel:
Executives from Monsanto Co. and Bayer AG are slated to testify about the companies’ proposed merger at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday [St. Louis Business Journal].
Infrastructure dollars the big challenge in keeping US exports moving:
Clearly, a robust, efficient infrastructure for moving products to market is important to farmers and agribusinesses, since its strength can either enhance or limit their opportunities to make sales and deliver products on time and in good shape and, thus,their profits. That’s true especially for heavily exported commodities [Agri-Pulse].
Rural America has already began to rebound:
Despite concerns about the fate of rural America, a number of key benchmarks show these areas have been growing economically since 2014 [New York Times].
MISCELLANEOUS
California governor backs rules on cow, landfill emissions:
California will begin regulating greenhouse-gas emissions tied to dairy cows and landfills under legislation signed Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown, escalating state efforts to fight climate change beyond carbon-based gases to include methane and other pollutants [Washington Post].
Struggling US wheat sector cheers trade action against China:
U.S. wheat farmers, struggling to make money as prices sink and global supplies swell, could be the main beneficiaries if Washington wins a case it brought last week against China over an estimated $100 billion in domestic grain market supports [Reuters].
