Articles Tagged with ''Debbie Stabenow''

The Senate Agriculture Committee will hold a landmark hearing this week on a bipartisan plan to accelerate the development of agricultural carbon markets, and the panel also is set to act on a measure to reauthorize federal grain standards and export inspections.

A bipartisan group of 12 senators and 12 representatives signed a letter on Friday calling on the Department of Agriculture to move up the deadline for allowing producers to graze or harvest cover crops on prevented plant acres.

Restaurants across the country are working hard to get back to normal, farmers have lost valuable food service markets and a growing number of unemployed workers struggle to purchase food because of COVID-19.

CalEPA will fill U.S. EPA’s ‘enforcement gaps’ * Cost of dairy aid option soars

Members of Congress are pushing USDA to move forward with aid for specialty crop producers.

A massive economic stimulus bill that congressional leaders are rushing to finish could allow the Agriculture Department to provide multiple forms of aid to different sectors hit by the coronavirus epidemic as well as a fresh round of Market Facilitation Program payments, a key senator says.

Former Vice President Al Gore and the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, Debbie Stabenow, agree that farmers can play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Staffers move around Capitol Hill and Bob Ross retires from USDA after a 39-year career.

Rep. Nita Lowey has announced she will not seek another term in Congress and Walmart U.S. has selected a new CEO.

USDA is working to ensure the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture continue to perform “mission-critical work” during the transition of the two agencies to the Kansas City region, a top-ranking science official told the Senate Agriculture Committee today.