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Tuesday, April 15, 2025
The Department of Agriculture has announced key staff positions and the National Pork Producers Council has tapped Bryan Humphreys to be the organizations new CEO.
The Department of Agriculture plans to distribute some $633 million in loans and grants aimed at bolstering rural power infrastructure and making higher blends of biofuels more available to consumers.
Producers will have additional crop insurance flexibilities at their disposal next year after a handful of changes from the Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency.
Lawmakers worried that China could gain control over the U.S. food system through land purchases are looking to curb the nation's grip on American farmland, despite no evidence of a spike in land sales to Chinese interests, according to an Agri-Pulse analysis of Agriculture Department data.
Democrats hope to get President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill to the finish line in December, but first they face a more urgent stalemate with Republicans ahead of Friday’s expiration of a stopgap funding bill.
The Department of Agriculture is offering a fresh round of funding through its ReConnect program aimed at expanding broadband availability in rural areas.
The Biden administration and congressional Democrats are aiming to use the agriculture provisions in the Build Back Better bill to jump-start farmers’ work on climate-related farming practices and potentially create permanently higher levels of funding for conservation programs.
Even as some states and USDA invest millions of dollars in expanding medium and small-scale meat processing, a new economic analysis cautions against seeing this development as insulation against the next “black swan” event, which is how the researchers describe the pandemic.
Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. and Apex-Brasil are hosting a December 1 webinar titled "AgriTalks Brazil/USA – Green technologies in agribusiness for a sustainable future." This complimentary 90-minute program will enable a closer look at how Brazilian agriculture leaders are trying to position themselves for the future. Agri-Pulse Senior Trade Editor Bill Tomson will serve as moderator for the event.
The Democratic-controlled House passes President Joe Biden’s $1.7 trillion Build Back Better bill that includes $82 billion in agriculture provisions aimed at accelerating an historic shift toward climate-related farming practices.
