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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Fresh off the heels of a nearly $266 million renewable energy announcement from USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is urging a hands-off approach by those outside the department looking to tweak the agency’s funding pools.
The Agriculture Department on Monday said it will be distributing $667 million for high-speed internet projects through the fourth funding round of its ReConnect Program.
Former FDA Deputy Commissioner of Food Policy and Response Frank Yiannas has joined Wiliot and Janie Hipp has started a new job as the CEO and president of the Native Agriculture Financial Services.
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.
A South Dakota lawmaker is calling on Congress to move forward with plans to add more transparency to cattle markets to help address “underlying frailties within the marketplace” even though current prices for market cattle are reaching record prices.
President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Jon Holladay as the chief financial officer at the Department of Agriculture, and Matthew Lyons is now the director of business development, Value-Added Fresh division, for Naturipe Farms.
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.
President Joe Biden has come out against a House Republican funding measure that would fund USDA and FDA, arguing the bill goes beyond an agreement to cut spending reached earlier this year with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Xochitl Torres Small was sworn in as the USDA’s new deputy secretary Monday, a job she said is the next step in a “personal” relationship with the department that spans generations.
In this opinion piece, Gretchen Kroh, managing policy advisor at Carbon180, discusses why the upcoming farm bill should address soil carbon measurements.
