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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
The chief of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service expressed confidence that the agency could hire the staff it needs to handle a sharp increase in climate-related funding, despite many applicants for soil conservationist positions lacking a key job requirement – a class in soil science.
Dan Glickman, the Secretary of Agriculture during the major crop insurance overhaul in 2000, said crop insurance should be the preferred method of risk management rather than a permanent disaster program.
Republicans on the House Ag Appropriations Subcommittee on Thursday advanced a fiscal 2024 spending bill for USDA and FDA over Democratic accusations that it was a “sham proposal” that relied on funding rescissions that were unlikely to materialize in time.
USDA is funneling more assistance to producers looking to maintain their organic certification as the department also stands up a new grant program to develop markets for the products.
The nation’s largest farm group is throwing its weight behind a petition the National Milk Producers filed with USDA to reform federal milk marketing orders.
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing to declare salmonella as an adulterant in breaded stuffed raw chicken products, barring their sale if they exceeded a limit for the bacteria.
Judith McMeekin has announced she is going to retire from the Food and Drug Administration on June 30 and the American Peanut Council has hired Tracy Grondine as vice president of communications.
The Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy for America Program is receiving a $1 billion boost from the Inflation Reduction Act to fund projects improving the renewable energy infrastructure across farm country.
