Author: Membership

AS DINERS FLOCK TO DELIVERY APPS, RESTAURANTS FEAR FOR THEIR FUTURE

Even as apps like Grubhub have cast themselves as economic saviors for restaurants in the pandemic, their fees have become an increasing source of difficulty for the establishments. (New York … Read More

EPA CANCELS DICAMBA REGISTRATIONS WHILE ALLOWING USE OF EXISTING PRODUCT STOCKS –

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a cancellation order regarding the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ June 3, 2020 vacatur of three dicamba registrations —Xtendimax, Engenia, and FeXapan. The … Read More

• COVID-19 UPDATE

CFAP Handbook: Chapter 141, Pages 5-31 through 5-36, contains information on the eligibility of marketing contracts, including examples. The remainder of the handbook provides additional information for hybrid seed and … Read More

• DICAMBA UPDATE

Less than one week after the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated three dicamba herbicide registrations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a cancellation order. For more … Read More

US AND CANADIAN AIRPORTS BUOY SSP’S FOOD RETAIL BUSINESS AMID COVID-19 SHUTDOWNS –

The North American operations of travel food and beverage retailer SSP stood out across the company’s global business as the sole driver of growth over the six months to the … Read More

RACING RETURNS WITHOUT SPECTATORS

Horse racing is returning to Illinois tracks in June. The Illinois Department of Agriculture worked with various stakeholders to bring patron-free standardbred and thoroughbred racing back on tracks around the … Read More

GROCERY STORES THAT CLOSED DURING THE GEORGE FLOYD FALLOUT START TO REOPEN. BUT FOOD REMAINS ELUSIVE IN SOME NEIGHBORHOODS –

Many grocery stores that shut their doors this week during the fallout from George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis started to open again Thursday with limited hours, hoping the unrest that … Read More

USMCA OR NOT, U.S.-MEXICO AG ISSUES BREWING

North American leaders are selling USMCA as a big win that will remove uncertainty in the region, but some agricultural issues between the U.S. and Mexico remain unresolved. (Politico)

DOJ SUBPOENAS FOUR BIGGEST MEATPACKERS IN ANTITRUST PROBE

The department’s antitrust division sent civil investigative demands, which are akin to subpoenas, to the companies and is talking with state attorneys general about the probe after a group of … Read More

DESPITE NEW CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAKS AT ITS IOWA PLANTS, TYSON FOODS RESUMES ATTENDANCE POLICY –

Tyson Foods is reinstating an attendance policy that punishes workers for missing shifts, even as it reports new COVID-19 outbreaks in its Iowa meatpacking plants. (State Journal-Register)  

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