Proposed Farm Bill Offers More Protection for Flower Breeders
The Senate version of the Farm Bill includes language updating a law that protects the intellectual property of floral industry breeders. The provision was also in the House version of the b... Read more
Last week, the House rejected the Farm Bill (officially known as H.R. 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018) on a vote of 198 to 213. Significantly, the reason it was voted down wasn’... Read more
The U.S. Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA) needs to be modernized and updated. That’s the message SAF carried to the Senate this week during a lobbying offensive with several other industr... Read more
On April 12, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-TX) released his draft text of the 2018 Farm Bill. The Chairman intends to consider the bill in the full House Agriculture... Read more
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-TX) announced the farm bill is being prepared for consideration by the full House before the end of the first quarter of this year. A num... Read more
At Year’s End, the Floral Industry Sees Results in Washington
Another year, another standstill in Washington, D.C.? Not by a long shot. It may seem like nothing ever gets done in Washington. In their own lives, floral industry business owners expect re... Read more