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Saturday, April 12, 2025
The Agriculture Department announced Tuesday that it accepted about 2 million acres into the Conservation Reserve Program during this year’s general signup, well short of what could be needed to keep CRP from shrinking this year.
In this opinion piece, Tim Bardole with the United Soybean Board, addresses the sustainability of soybean production through the lens of innovation, collaboration and dedication, amidst challenges and opportunities with biofuels, supply chain and inputs issues.
Food and apparel companies face proposed new disclosure requirements for greenhouse gas emissions that could accelerate efforts to document GHG reductions associated with agriculture.
The Ocean Shipping Reform Act, a bill intended to unlock port bottlenecks that have snarled shipments of many farm commodities, gets a vote in the Senate Commerce Committee this week, while the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court is considering a case that could restrict EPA’s authority not just to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants, but to implement other regulations without explicit congressional authorization.
In this opinion piece, former Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., discusses the inaccuracies of the New York Times video series U.S. agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions.
The biofuel tax incentives in President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill could insure a growing market for soybean oil and other farm commodities, but the trucking industry worries the subsidies will kick off a war with the airlines over feedstocks.
Multinational food companies raced to set pledges to slash the carbon emissions in their supply chains, and now those firms are scrambling to recruit the farmers needed to meet those targets, even as it remains unclear who’s going to foot the bill.
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.
