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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, December 20, 2024
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.
Legislators and citizens in the Pacific Northwest are engulfed in a debate over whether or not to breach four dams on the Snake River to restore dwindling salmon populations.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says it’s far too early to tell how much impact the war in Ukraine will ultimately have on consumers and global food supplies.
A leading U.S. ag economist thinks the Biden administration may have to open up the Conservation Reserve Program to cropping this year because of grain shortages that could result from the crisis in Ukraine.
USDA will begin accepting applications for $215 million in grants and technical assistance meant to expand the nation’s meat and poultry processing capacity.
Robert Bonnie, USDA’s undersecretary for farm production and conservation, says the Farm Service Agency and Natural Resources Conservation Service are staffing up field offices as fast as possible as COVID infection rates drop.
Sen. Joe Manchin is showing no sign of compromising on President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill, vital as it may be to the administration’s climate policy.
The Biden administration is set to direct millions of dollars toward boosting the diversification of the nation’s meat processing capacity, but facilities planning on processing cattle could be timing their entry into the market at a difficult time.
