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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Producers who need to talk with someone at their county office now will have to make an appointment, as COVID-19 cases continue to increase nationwide.
The White House is asking Congress for $45.8 billion to cover the rising cost to the Agriculture Department and other departments and agencies of responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
House and Senate negotiators will have to sort through some sharply different priorities and spending targets for USDA and other departments and agencies important to agriculture.
Pete Buttigieg, making a bid for rural voters in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, proposed Tuesday to repopulate struggling communities by offering special visas to immigrants who agree to move to those towns.
Nearly 1,688 farms and 1,716 rural businesses across 34 states have requested $522 million in grants for USDA Rural Development’s first round of funding for the ReConnect Pilot Program.
The loss of Dallas Tonsager, Corn Refiners Association taps a new COO, Alltech adds four new senior executives, and Ducks Unlimited adds to its public policy team.
Dallas Tonsager, the chairman of the Farm Credit Administration since 2016 who earlier served as an undersecretary for rural development at USDA, died Tuesday. He was 64.
