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Thompson, Stabenow offer opposing farm bill plans amid ongoing partisan battle

05/01/24 5:00 AM By Philip Brasher

Leaders of the House and Senate Ag committees announced dueling plans for a new farm bill as the partisan impasse appeared to deepen ahead of the House panel’s planned votes on May 23. House Ag Chairman Glenn Thompson released a broad summary of his planned legislation, and his Senate counterpart, Debbie Stabenow, followed with a much more detailed section-by-section summary of her draft bill.

Fiscal 2024 spending package targets foreign farmland concerns, fully funds WIC

03/03/24 8:57 PM By Philip Brasher

A package of fiscal 2024 spending bills released by congressional leaders Sunday includes new provisions to address concerns about foreign acquisition of U.S. farmland and agribusiness interests and also provides full funding for the Women, Infants and Children nutrition assistance program.

GAO says USDA tracking of foreign land ownership 'flawed'

01/18/24 3:16 PM By Noah Wicks

USDA staff fail to “sufficiently verify” the accuracy of foreign land ownership data and are slow to share information on those landholdings with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the Government Accountability Office says in a long-awaited audit.

Foreign landholdings grew in 2022, but remain small

01/10/24 6:18 AM By Noah Wicks

Foreign holdings of U.S. land rose by 3.4 million acres in 2022, with 45% of the growth occurring in Colorado, Alabama, and Michigan, according to a new Agriculture Department report. These holdings, however, represent only a small share of the nation’s overall farmland.

USDA considering foreign land reporting form update

12/15/23 4:20 PM By Noah Wicks

Canadian investors own almost 1% of all US farmland

11/08/23 6:06 AM By Quentin Slater

Foreign investors own more farmland acres in the U.S. than there are total ag acres in the state of Georgia.

Syngenta weighing next steps following Arkansas land divestment order

10/25/23 6:12 AM By Noah Wicks

Agrichemical company Syngenta is now weighing its next steps after being issued a stern ultimatum by the Arkansas attorney general: divest of 160 acres of land within two years or face legal action.

Sparse resources complicate monitoring of foreign land purchases, lawmakers told

09/27/23 5:47 PM By Noah Wicks

The Agriculture Department is working to update its system for tracking agricultural land leases and purchases to appease lawmaker demands, but staffing and funding limitations have limited the agency to "low-cost" options, a department official told the Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday.

Vilsack: USDA cracking down on disclosure of foreign land purchases

03/30/23 1:16 PM By Noah Wicks

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told members of a House Appropriations subcommittee Monday that he has hired more staff to track foreign farmland purchases after a three-year gap in his department’s application of disclosure penalties.

While foreign purchases of US land surge, USDA's reporting penalties plunge

Chinese firms fined in 2021 disclosure cases

09/21/22 6:50 AM By Noah Wicks

The Agriculture Department’s tracking of foreign land ownership relies heavily on investors to voluntarily report acquisitions, but enforcement cases have dropped dramatically even as the number of transactions has surged over the past decade, according to an analysis of USDA data.

Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: April 26, 2024: USDA Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Lester Moffitt on bird flu, competition

USDA Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Lester Moffitt oversees the Agricultural Marketing Service and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. She joins us to discuss the latest on the bird flu outbreak and how USDA is responding.

Then, Michael Dykes with the International Dairy Foods Association and Fred Gingrich with the American Association of Bovine Practitioners join to chat more about the impact the bird flu has had on the dairy industry.

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