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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Georgia Democrat David Scott, who has been the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee for the past two years, has been elected as Ranking Member by his Democratic colleagues for the 118th Congress.
Eight GOP members of the House Agriculture Committee are calling for a hearing with the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to discuss the nation’s pesticide law.
Amid an ongoing battle over regulation of beefpackers, House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott introduces a bill that would target new federal assistance to small cattle operations.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday it signed an agreement to enhance its support of minority communities through its partnership with 1890s Land-Grant institutions.
Leaders of the nation’s largest beef packers denied accusations Wednesday that they had any agreement in place to suppress prices or competition for beef cattle throughout the country.
Lawmakers are laying the groundwork to recharge the Rural Energy for America Program, a USDA initiative to bankroll clean and renewable energy from rural areas and farms.
More technical assistance and streamlined application processes for conservation programs would help farmers adopt conservation practices to reduce greenhouse gases, lawmakers were told at a hearing on how the next farm bill should address climate change.
The House of Representatives cleared a pair of bills critical to the livestock sector Wednesday, but the measures might face different fates in the Senate.
Multiple breakdowns in how goods are transported across the country and around the globe are worsening crises in a food and agriculture sector that is already bleeding profits and customers, according to witnesses at a House hearing Wednesday.
