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For the Week Ending July 21, 2017 July 21, 2017

SUPPORT FOR FMD VACCINE BANK GROWS NPPC was among the lead signatories on a letter sent by an ad hoc coalition of more than 100 agricultural organizations and allied industry groups calling for federal funding of a Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine bank to be included in the 2018 Farm Bill. The letter, sent to the to […]

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Vaccine Bank Needed To Protect Food, National Security July 18, 2017

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 18, 2017 – Citing economic and food and national security concerns, an ad hoc coalition of more than 100 agricultural organizations and allied industries groups urged Congress to include in the next Farm Bill language establishing and funding a Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine bank. FMD is an infectious viral disease that affects […]

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For the Week Ending July 14, 2017 July 14, 2017

GROUPS URGE ADMINISTRATION NOT TO RESTRICT STEEL IMPORTS NPPC and 17 other agricultural groups this week in a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross urged the Trump administration not to restrict through tariffs imports of steel and aluminum. The restrictions would be imposed as a national security measure, according to the administration, which […]

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