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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, January 05, 2025
Producers and landowners will be able to start signing up for the Conservation Reserve Program at the end of the month, USDA announced Monday, as the department tries to expand the acreage to reach the 2018 farm bill’s goal for fiscal 2022.
In this opinion piece, Britt Lundgren with Stonyfield Organic and Nathaniel Powell-Palm of Cold Springs Organics discuss how agriculture is uniquely positioned to help tackle climate change and that Build Back Better can help make that happen while delivering economic benefits to U.S. food businesses, farmers and rural communities across the country.
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.
At the latest UN Conference of the Parties in Glasgow these past two weeks, food and ag has been if not center stage, at least an important part of the discussion.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the U.S. has made it clear at the climate summit in Glasgow that the United States has re-engaged in the global climate change discussion but also has emphasized that “agriculture is not part of the problem. It's part of the solution.”
The latest assessment of major food, beverage and agriculture companies’ attention to water issues such as scarcity and pollution shows more are taking action.
Rostin Behnam, President Joe Biden’s pick to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, says the derivatives regulator should have some input into the development of agricultural carbon markets to ensure they operate fairly.
Fruit harvests in Washington are complicated as temperatures are predicted to peak at 115 degrees this week, a record-breaking high this early in the season.
House appropriators are proposing to steer new Agriculture Department funding into tackling climate change and expanding rural broadband service under a fiscal 2022 spending bill released Thursday.