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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
Washington veteran Eric Steiner will join Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Matz’s (OFW) Government Relations’ team as a senior policy advisor. The Agriculture Department announced senior appointments and promotions across the agency, including: Cindy Long, Sean Babington, and Eric Deeble. CoBank named; Sean Burke; as chief financial officer. He will lead the cooperative bank’s finance group. Animal Health Institute president and CEO Mathews will retire at the end of 2024.
USDA is distributing more than $1.2 billion through seven Rural Development programs to cooperatives for projects ranging from health care to utility infrastructure.
National Cooperative Bank released its annual list of the 100 cooperatives in the country, and nearly half the listings and the four largest co-ops by revenue are agriculture enterprises.
The chaos among House Republicans isn’t the only hurdle facing a new farm bill. Senate Republican Whip John Thune, R-S.D., says the Senate Ag Committee remains divided over key issues, including what to do about the major commodity programs.
Keith Jones has joined the staff at Cornerstone Government Affairs as a senior consultant and President Joe Biden has resubmitted nominations to the Senate for Margo Schlanger and Stacy Dean.
In a pessimistic outlook for the 2023 farm economy, CoBank analysts say the upcoming year will be shaped by political gridlock in Washington and financial conditions that soften the American economy into a period of economic contraction.
Even as the Federal Reserve struggles to get inflation under control, the agriculture and energy sectors “have gained unexpected levels of pricing power” due to lingering global supply challenges, according to a quarterly report from CoBank.
