Active In All Arenas
Mark Lange
NCC President/CEO
What about regulations and education?
The NCC is active on numerous regulatory matters – from food safety to Fomesafen, the latter an important product for managing resistant pigweed in the Mid-South and Southeast. On food safety, NCC members were urged to convey serious concerns to their Congressional members regarding a House bill that would have significantly expanded the Food and Drug Administration's authority to regulate and oversee on-farm production activities. In anticipation of Senate action on food safety, the NCC and 25 other agricultural groups sent a letter to a Senate committee recommending or endorsing certain provisions of S. 510.
NCC also has been actively engaged in opposition to a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision which vacated an EPA rule exempting certain pesticide applications from the requirement of Clean Water Act permits. Although the case involved application directly to, over or near water bodies, EPA has identified several scenarios that will affect production agriculture. The court rejected a request for a case rehearing so the NCC and other agriculture and pesticide organizations are appealing to the Supreme Court.
source : cottonfarming
Mark Lange
NCC President/CEO
What about regulations and education?
The NCC is active on numerous regulatory matters – from food safety to Fomesafen, the latter an important product for managing resistant pigweed in the Mid-South and Southeast. On food safety, NCC members were urged to convey serious concerns to their Congressional members regarding a House bill that would have significantly expanded the Food and Drug Administration's authority to regulate and oversee on-farm production activities. In anticipation of Senate action on food safety, the NCC and 25 other agricultural groups sent a letter to a Senate committee recommending or endorsing certain provisions of S. 510.
NCC also has been actively engaged in opposition to a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision which vacated an EPA rule exempting certain pesticide applications from the requirement of Clean Water Act permits. Although the case involved application directly to, over or near water bodies, EPA has identified several scenarios that will affect production agriculture. The court rejected a request for a case rehearing so the NCC and other agriculture and pesticide organizations are appealing to the Supreme Court.
source : cottonfarming
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