Articles Tagged with ''House Ag Committee''

A political analyst predicts numerous congressional seats will be a toss-up this November for agriculture committee and subcommittee members.

Races in rural districts and major farm states could play a role in deciding control of Congress this fall.

“Not that I’m aware of.” House Agriculture Chairman David Scott says that answer from Tim Schellpeper, the CEO of meatpacking giant JBS USA, at a hearing in April is enough to justify setting up a special investigator’s office at USDA to look into meat industry practices.

Farmers may increase their double cropping over the next year regardless of whether there is an incentive payment from the government.

Farmers are struggling this spring with sky-high production costs, but the bigger concern is whether there will be enough fertilizer and other inputs to go around for next season

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is in Germany through this weekend for meetings with his G7 counterparts.

The UK sent its top agriculture official to the U.S. this week in an effort to lay the groundwork for an eventual trade agreement with the U.S.

The top Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee is calling on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to delay signup for the Conservation Reserve Program because of the war in Ukraine.

Rep. Jim Hagedorn, a Minnesota Republican in his second term in Congress and on the House Agriculture Committee, died Thursday after a three-year battle with stage four kidney cancer. He was 59.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack confirms that USDA is expecting to spend about $1 billion from the Commodity Credit Corp. for developing climate-smart agricultural commodities.