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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
The White House on Wednesday announced plans to hold the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health in September, the first such meeting in 53 years.
President Joe Biden’s move to use emergency authority and grant summertime sales of E15 has been welcomed by a wide swath of lawmakers across the political spectrum.
The Biden administration plans to use the month of April to highlight the investments and initiatives included in the 2021 infrastructure package, including a Monday event in Colorado aimed at forest fire management and a Tuesday visit to an Iowa ethanol plant.
Lawmakers are proposing creation of an Office of Rural Prosperity in the White House, which would be tasked with coordinating rural policy across the government.
Farm groups and their Capitol Hill champions calling for action to allow year-round sales of E15 as a way to lessen the blow of rising gas prices got a signal — albeit a very noncommittal one — Tuesday that the White House was open to the idea.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is in Jefferson City, Mo., today to announce that USDA is ready to start taking applications for demonstration projects to help the department develop “climate-smart” products.
Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley accused his own party's staff on the Senate Ag Committee of working with meat processors to harm the prospects for a cattle market reform bill.
The Biden administration’s plans to invest more than $1 billion in the meat sector rolled out on Monday can be expected to invest in several different types of facilities and include provisions to keep subsidized facilities from falling into the hands of major meatpackers.