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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, May 06, 2024
In this opinion piece, Congressman Max Miller, highlights the importance of the U.S. agriculture industry to our economy and the strength of the food supply while emphasizing the need to pass an updated Farm Bill to address the challenges faced by the agriculture industry and consumers.
Farmers and ranchers looking to serve their community next year can now be nominated for the Farm Service Agency’s county committees. This year, the Department of Agriculture is streamlining the process with the addition of a GIS tool for producers to make nominations and vote.
In this opinion piece, Josh Hinerfeld expresses the challenges around organic farming and why support in Washington is needed to ensure the industry’s growth.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday it signed an agreement to enhance its support of minority communities through its partnership with 1890s Land-Grant institutions.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign received a $3.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund a technological and regenerative operation coined the “Farm of the Future”.
President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2023 includes a $2.6 billion, or 9%, increase for USDA with many of the same themes of the first budget he proposed a year ago.
Breeding Insight, a USDA project that provides resources to specialty crop breeding programs, and VitisGen2, a multi-institute research project, have partnered together to fund an effort to map the genomes of two grapevine germplasm collections.
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