Last week the House Judiciary Committee passed H.R. 1147, the Legal Workforce Act. The bill requires employers, including farm employers, to check the work eligibility of all future hires through the web-based E-Verify system. NJFB contacted each NJ House member expressing our opposition, and asked that…
Acclaimed late night TV host Jay Leno will give the closing session keynote address at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 96th Annual Convention and IDEAg Trade Show in San Diego on Jan. 12, 2015. Leno, an admired stand-up comedian, is also a best-selling children’s book…
About 600 business people and public officials took the Amtrak train last Tuesday for the annual “Walk to Washington,” a 77-year lobbying tradition. Click here to read more.
Congratulations! We finally made it! Here we are on the first day of spring. Not that this means you can go outside and plant everything you want, or that Ol’ Man Winter won’t revisit our neighborhoods. But at least there’s the sense that the end…
On February 26, 2014, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) released his proposal for tax reform. The draft lowers tax rates for individuals and businesses and broadens the tax base by eliminating over 220 tax credits, deductions and exclusions. Click here to read a…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the White House. And the Obamas can thank Wyckoff’s Christmas Tree Farm outside Belvidere for that. First lady Michelle Obama today accepted four trees from the White Township farm to be featured in the executive mansion,…
Among nearly 20,000 written comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on draft rules regarding produce and preventive controls are letters from lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), which is trying to nudge FDA into doing a second draft…
The deadline for submitting comments to the FDA regarding the rule implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act is November 15. NJ Farm Bureau encourages all producers who may be impacted to submit comments. Click here for some information you may use as a reference.
New Jersey Agriculture Secretary Douglas Fisher issued a letter to the state’s agricultural community describing the ag-related impacts of the federal government shutdown. Click here to read this letter.
Overshadowed by the government shutdown, the U.S. farm subsidy law expired for the second time on Tuesday with lawmakers still deadlocked over how to confront cuts in food assistance programs for low-income Americans. Click here to read the full story from Reuters.
