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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, March 05, 2025
A project that aims to create standards and build up the hemp building and construction industry, a market advocates say holds major environmental and economic potential, was selected for federal funding. While industrial hemp has made several advancements, advocates are worried an amendment included in the House farm bill could cause havoc and limit further growth.
Senate Ag member Roger Marshall, R-Kan., says border security concerns are going to make passage of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act an uphill battle in the Senate.
Four years after the farm bill legalized industrial hemp nationwide, crop acreage is falling as the industry struggles to get regulatory clarity and infrastructure for products derived from the plant’s grain and fiber.
Chuck Magro has been tapped to serve as the new CEO at Corteva and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation has selected Hilary Harp Falk as the organization’s next CEO and president.
Partially motivated by funding concerns, two prominent hemp-growing states recently decided to let the U.S. Department of Agriculture regulate hemp within their borders, and others are still in the process of deciding whether to hand over authority to USDA as the pilot programs authorized under the 2014 farm bill expire at the end of this year.
A recent memo from the Farm Credit Administration to farm credit banks and associations on hemp financing has a prominent hemp industry group concerned that many growers could have difficulty obtaining loans they need to expand their operations.
Longtime Senate appropriator and GOP dealmaker Roy Blunt of Missouri is the fifth GOP senator to announce that he’s not seeking re-election. Blunt is a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and former ranking Republican on the Agriculture Appropriations subcommittee that writes the annual budgets for USDA and FDA.
House committees begin voting starting today on the first provisions in the massive $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid package President Joe Biden is pushing to pass. The House Agriculture Committee is scheduled to meet Wednesday to approve its portion of the package.
USDA loosened regulatory requirements for hemp in a new rule issued Friday, giving producers more time to harvest their crops after testing for THC levels and not requiring they use laboratories registered with the Drug Enforcement Administration until the end of 2022.
