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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
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.
The Biden administration’s climate goals are bringing attention to the role of forests in storing carbon and the need to offer incentives to private forest owners to manage their trees sustainably.
Some conservation and environmentalists say the new Civilian Climate Corps should create private landowner partnerships with the Agriculture Department to protect soil, both to reduce greenhouse emissions and protect water quality.