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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, March 05, 2025
The House is on track to debate the GOP’s massive budget blueprint next week. The House Rules Committee is scheduled Monday to prepare the budget resolution for floor action, although it’s not yet clear that Republicans have nailed down the votes.
East Coast dockworkers agreed to end their two-day strike after coming to a “tentative agreement on wages” with the United States Maritime Alliance, the International Longshoremen’s Association and USMX said in a joint statement Thursday.
Sen. Tina Smith remains optimistic that the farm bill can be approved by the end of the year, in part because of the progress the Senate is making on appropriations bills.
Four senators introduced a bill Friday to double funding for two popular ag export promotion programs that proponents say play a key role in boosting sales of U.S. cotton, meat, wheat, corn, soybeans and other farm commodities to foreign buyers around the globe.
A bipartisan group of a dozen senators is calling on Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack to hold off on policy changes that could make it easier for sugar to make its way across U.S. borders.
The climate funding package that Senate Democrats have agreed on should make it easier to pass the next farm bill while helping consumers and producers deal with climate change, says a Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, Tina Smith of Minnesota.
The Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing Thursday to consider the nomination of Katherine Tai to be President Joe Biden’s U.S. Trade Representative and point person on the future of trade relations with China.
Farm country may ultimately help Republicans keep control of the Senate, as Rep. Roger Marshall defeated challenger Barbara Bollier in Kansas and Joni Ernst held on to her seat in Iowa against Theresa Greenfield. But some races are still undecided.
