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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, May 20, 2024
In this opinion piece, Brian Crawford highlights the importance of agriculture to the US beer industry and calls on Congress to swiftly pass a new Farm Bill in the new year.
One of the two Western members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, New Mexico Democrat Ben Ray Luján, took his time on Agri-Pulse Newsmakers to stump for language in the farm bill that would aid producers in drought-prone areas.
FarmNet is one program in a patchwork of initiatives across the U.S. meant to help farmers manage the stress that comes with their lives and occupations.
Former House Ag Committee Chair Collin Peterson says moving the Inflation Reduction Act’s conservation funds to commodity program supports is “off the table” for Ag Committee Democrats in the House and Senate, and people trying to do just that “are dreaming.”
A stopgap spending bill released by House Republicans Saturday includes a one-year extension of the 2018 farm bill and funding for some relatively small programs that expired on Sept. 30.
A handful of agricultural districts are in line to play pivotal roles as Democrats and Republicans battle for control of the House in 2024 elections, now one year away.
In this opinion piece, Steve Linscombe with The Rice Foundation addresses the need for increased funding for agricultural research in the next farm bill.
Lawmakers are looking at boosting subsidies for supplemental, area-based crop insurance policies to induce growers to buy higher levels of coverage, which could potentially reduce the demand from farm groups for ad hoc disaster assistance.
Lawmakers want to use the farm bill to make the Agriculture Department's ReConnect loan and grant program for rural broadband permanent, but they still need to settle a debate about whether to ease the required service speeds.
Rep. Frank Lucas, the chair of the House Ag Committee during the development of the 2014 farm bill, has an optimistic view of the newly-elected House Speaker and discussed his perspective on how the timelines for the farm bill and appropriations bills may be influenced by this change in leadership on this week's Agri-Pulse Newsmakers.
