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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
In this opinion piece, Tim Trotter, CEO of Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, explains how the farm bill can be used to ensure farmers receive an accurate and timely return for their milk.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative has a temporary new chief transparency officer and Monument Advocacy has a new vice president of government relations in the organization’s food and agriculture practice.
If the last seven weeks of hearing testimony is any indication, USDA has a major challenge ahead in formulating proposed changes to the federal milk marketing order and balancing the wish lists of dairy producers and processors.
Jim Jones has been selected by the Food and Drug Administration to serve as the first deputy commissioner for human foods and Pivot Bio has named Chris Abbott as the new CEO.
Dairy producers and market participants will be sharing testimony starting Aug. 23 on a wide range of proposals for USDA as it considers updates to the federal milk marketing order.
President Joe Biden plans to nominate Paul Martin as the inspector general of the United States Agency for International Development and USDA has made some senior staff changes.
President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Jon Holladay as the chief financial officer at the Department of Agriculture and former SDA Deputy Secretary Jewel Bronaugh has returned to Virginia State University to be senior adviser to the dean for land-grant initiatives.
USDA has scheduled a pre-hearing information session for Friday, June 16, to get more input from the dairy industry on a National Milk Producers Federation petition to amend five provisions of the federal milk marketing order, as well as on a narrower request from the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA).
Alyssa Charney now serves as the director for lands and climate-smart agriculture in the climate policy office at the White House and Adam Hodge will be moving to the National Security Council on a detailed assignment as the acting senior director for press and spokesperson.