When President Trump announced in September of last year that he would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in March of 2018, he set in motion a debate on immigration policy... Read more
The House of Representatives voted February 14 to reauthorize the (GSP) through December 31, 2020, paving the way for an end to duties on flowers coming into the U.S. from Ecuador. The vote... Read more
Are you active in a community service organization? Has your company been in business since 1918? If you answered yes to either question (or both), consider applying for recognition in the A... Read more
SAF Taps Two Experts to Prepare CAD Participants
The countdown is on for the Society of American Florists’ 38th Annual Congressional Action Days, March 12-13, in Washington, D.C. If you have not done so yet, now is the time to make your CA... Read more
The House of Representatives voted February 13 to reauthorize the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) through December 31, 2020, paving the way for an end to duties on flowers coming int... Read more
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue and the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb this week announced a formal agreement betw... Read more
As noted in the March 31, 2017 Week In Review, funding for the Floriculture and Nursery Research Initiative (FNRI) was increased after SAF’s 2017 Congressional Action Days (CAD). FNRI is a f... Read more
On January 30, 2018, The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it finalized a rule to allow the importation of orchid plants of t... Read more
Taxes. Health care. Labor. Immigration. Floriculture research. As the national floral industry trade association, the Society of American Florists lobbies on Capitol Hill on federal issues a... Read more
Below is an insightful article written by long-time Washington insider Rich Galen. The article was originally published in his bi-weekly newsletter Mullings (to which anyone can subscribe f... Read more