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Soy Growers Help Lead GMO Labeling Fly-In Effort in Washington This Week

October 8, 2015

More than 20 leaders and staff from the American Soybean Association (ASA) and state affiliates helped lead a fly-in organized by the Coalition for Safe Affordable Food this week in Washington, D.C. to urge Senators ...

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Soy Growers Encouraged to Contact Senate Offices on the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act

October 8, 2015

The next two months will require an all-hands-on-deck effort from everyone within agricultural organizations to pass the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act. The bill will establish a voluntary food labeling standard for products that do not ...

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Farmers Want Answers from EPA, Corps on Waters of the U.S. Webinar

October 8, 2015

Soy growers are asking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers for answers regarding the implementation of the final Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) under the Clean Water Act. The American ...

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Congress Works on Extension for Positive Train Control

October 8, 2015

The American Soybean Association (ASA) has joined with agricultural industry groups and a broader coalition of business and industry in urging Congress to act quickly to extend the deadline for railroads to implement Positive Train ...

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Senate Committee Rejects Anti-RFS Amendment

October 8, 2015

During consideration and mark-up of a bill to lift the ban on crude oil exports, the Senate Banking Committee last week defeated an amendment that would have eliminated the conventional biofuels portion of the Renewable ...

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