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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, September 01, 2024
Val Dolcini, a former Farm Service Agency administrator and California environmental official, will be the newest member of Syngenta's Washington office.
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack ripped into lawsuits challenging debt relief for minority producers in remarks released Wednesday, asking what those who are challenging the payments did to address previous instances of discrimination the program is meant to address.
USDA's Farm Service Agency recently announced a multiyear $10 million initiative aimed at quantifying the benefits of Conservation Reserve Program contracts.
In this opinion piece, Deb Casurella with MyAgData®, urges the Biden administration to implement Acreage Crop Reporting Streamlining Initiative (ACRSI) technology.
President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Virginia Ag Commissioner Jewel Bronaugh to be the next deputy secretary of agriculture, the second highest position at USDA. If confirmed, she would be the first woman of color to hold the position.
The Agriculture Department is ditching a change in commodity program subsidy eligibility rules that would have unintentionally made it harder for some members of family farming operations to qualify for payments, a top official says.
The Agriculture Department is making changes to eligibility rules for commodity programs that could make it more challenging for some family members involved in farm operations to qualify for government payments.