NAWG President Wayne Hurst wrote leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees on Tuesday to outline wheat growers’ farm policy priorities as final proposals come together for super committee consideration.

New pesticide permitting requirements are set to go into effect next week despite a lack of clarity around who really needs to obtain the permits – or if agencies charged with issuing them are ready to do so in a timely manner.

As fall sets in, wheat growers and wheat lovers around the world are celebrating one of the most popular wheat-based foods: pasta.

Leaders of the Congressional Agriculture Committees told the debt-deficit super committee this week that mandatory agriculture and nutrition programs should take $23 billion in cuts as part of the overall effort to cut $1.5 trillion from the federal budget.

President Barack Obama is scheduled to sign free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea on Friday at the White House.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson said this week in letters to key Senators that the Obama Administration does not intend to pursue tighter regulations on coarse particulate matter (PM).

Congress approved this week free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea, nearly five years after the agreements were first negotiated.

The deadline by which Congressional authorizing committees must submit budget cutting ideas and priorities to the debt-deficit super committee is Friday.

NAWG and a dozen other major agricultural groups wrote the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week urging continued testing of new broadband technology to ensure it does not interfere with existing GPS systems used by farmers.

Wheat growers and other agricultural groups are urging quick approval of three long-pending free trade agreements submitted by the Obama Administration to Congress this week.

The House of Representatives approved on Tuesday a continuing resolution that will fund government operations until Nov. 18.

Key Members of Congress are quickly looking for solutions to a pesticide permitting debacle set to hit farmers and other users of crop protection products at month’s end.