Articles Tagged with ''Environmental Quality Incentives Program''

Rollins offers some details on market relief, releases conservation funds

03/02/25 8:56 PM By Philip Brasher and Oliver Ward

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Sunday laid out some broad details of the $10 billion in market relief for row crop producers that’s due out by March 21, asserting that the U.S. farm economy is “perhaps the worst it's been in 100 years.”

Washington Week Ahead: GOP leaders face farm aid blowback as deadline looms

12/15/24 3:41 PM By Philip Brasher

House GOP leaders were facing heavy pressure from farm groups and their allies in Congress on Sunday to add economic assistance for row crop producers to a year-end stopgap spending bill. House Democrats will pick a ranking member for the House Agriculture Committee on Monday.

Democrats offer $10B in ag market relief as parties spar over farm bill extension

12/11/24 6:10 AM By Philip Brasher and Rebekah Alvey

Democrats on the House and Senate Agriculture committees are proposing $10 billion in market relief for farmers as the parties spar over an extension of the 2018 farm bill, Agri-Pulse has learned. House GOP leaders, however, have so far objected to the method used to cover the cost of the farm payments.

USDA calls on producers to review conservation practice standards

11/13/24 7:02 AM By Chloe Lovejoy

USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service is soliciting comments on its Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation conservation practice standards.

Farm bill hits new snag as official cost estimate says it raises deficit

08/02/24 7:00 PM By Philip Brasher

The House Agriculture Committee’s farm bill would boost the federal budget deficit by $33 billion over 10 years, according to an official cost estimate released Friday by the Congressional Budget Office, which refused to change its stance on a budget offset intended to fund changes to commodity programs.

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Competing farm bill plans spotlight wide range of policy differences

05/15/24 7:23 AM By Philip Brasher and Noah Wicks

Ongoing partisan battles over nutrition assistance and Inflation Reduction Act funding have received all the attention but there are plenty of other policy disagreements in the approaches that leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture committees are taking on a new farm bill.

House Ag Republicans release new details of draft farm bill

PLC reference prices would rise 10-20%

05/10/24 5:25 PM By Philip Brasher, Rebekah Alvey, Steve Davies, and Noah Wicks

Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee are proposing to raise Price Loss Coverage reference prices by 10% to 20% depending on the commodity, while also providing increased income protection to growers under the Agriculture Risk Coverage program and crop insurance, according to a section-by-section summary released Friday.

Budzinski: Democrats, Republicans can 'meet the moment' to pass a farm bill this year

03/15/24 4:23 PM By Hannah Pagel

An Illinois Democrat says getting a bipartisan farm bill done this year is “critically important” and that she is optimistic Congress can pass new legislation before the September deadline included in last year's extension.

NRCS announces assistance for California flood damage

02/14/24 7:08 AM By Philip Brasher

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is releasing $1 million from the Environmental Quality Incentives Program to help farmers in California recover from damage caused by last month’s flooding.

Daybreak Sept. 20: Thompson welcomes no-cut budget blueprint

09/20/23 11:00 AM By Bill Tomson, Philip Brasher, Steve Davies, Noah Wicks, and Jacqui Fatka

Amid the budget turmoil on Capitol Hill, the House Budget Committee is set to consider a partisan, fiscal 2023 budget resolution today, a little more than a week before the end of the fiscal year.

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02.28.2025

Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Feb. 28, 2025: Seth Meyer from USDA Ag Outlook Forum

The Agriculture Department unveiled 2025 projections that show falling row crop prices and rising cattle and poultry prices. We speak with USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer from the USDA Ag Outlook Forum about the analysis, including the ongoing pressure on egg prices.

Then, Arlan Suderman from StoneX and Scott Irwin from the University of Illinois discuss land values, Trump’s tariff threats and USDA’s commodity price projections.

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