WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 -- Rep. Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho, issued the following news release on Dec. 19, 2023: On Thursday, December 14 the Biden Administration announced a potential 10-year stay in the Lower Snake River Dams mediation. As well as, over $1 billion in additional funding for fish restoration and studies to offset the hydropower, transportation, and recreation benefits that these dams provide. "The Biden Administration seems to be forgetting that Congress has the sole authority over the   more

JERUSALEM, Israel, Dec. 19 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release on Dec. 18, 2023: The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the occupied Gaza Strip, which is a war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, while willfully impeding humanitarian assistance, apparently razing agricultural areas, and depriving the civilian population of objects indispensable to thei  more

LONDON, England, Dec. 17 -- The International Journal of Food Science and Technology, a peer-reviewed journal from the Institute of Food Science and Technology that says it covers components of foods, their nutritional, physiological, sensory, flavour and microbiological aspects, published research articles on the following topics in its January 2024 edition (Vol. 59, Issue 1): Viewpoint: * Regenerative food innovation delivering foods for the future: a viewpoint on how science and technology  more

LONDON, England, Dec. 22 -- The Journal of Experimental Botany, a journal that says it features improvement of plants for the sustainable production of food, fuel and renewable materials from the Society of Experimental Biology, published research articles on the following topics in its January 2024 edition (Vol. 75, Issue 1): Extra Botany: - Insights * Advances in virus-induced flowering in tomato * Reciprocal regulation of cellulose and lignin biosynthesis by the transcription factor OsTC  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Dec. 19 -- The American Farm Bureau Federation issued the following news release: Farm Bureau farmer and rancher members play an important role in our communities and our organization by serving on governing boards and committees at local, state and national levels. Several newly appointed volunteers will provide leadership beginning in 2024 as members of the American Farm Bureau Federation's Young Farmers & Ranchers and Promotion & Education committees. "Farm Bureau memb  more

MOSCOW, Idaho, Dec. 22 (TNSres) -- The University of Idaho issued the following news release: Idaho agriculture overcame a struggling dairy market to record a second consecutive year of stellar cash receipts in 2023, propelled by record values of four of the state's major crops, according to a new University of Idaho economic report. Idaho agricultural cash receipts for the year totaled $11.157 billion, down by just 1% from the record-high number food producers celebrated in 2022, according to  more

ROME, Italy, Dec. 21 -- The United Nations World Food Programme issued the following statement on Dec. 20, 2023: * * * The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has been forced to temporarily suspend food assistance in some parts of Gezira State, as fighting spreads south and east of Sudan's capital Khartoum. This is a major setback to humanitarian efforts in the country's breadbasket, where WFP had been regularly providing aid to over 800,000 people, including many who escaped the fightin  more