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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Stacy Dean, deputy undersecretary of agriculture for food, nutrition and consumer services, will step down from her position in July. She led the Biden administration's update of the Thrifty Food Plan and was nominated twice to be undersecretary but the Senate returned her nomination both times.
USDA is awarding $50 million to farms, ranches, labor contractors and other entities to hire and retain farmworkers, including by encouraging the legal import of laborers from Central America.
House Republicans step up their latest effort to cut domestic, non-defense programs this week as they release the fiscal 2024 spending bill to fund the Agriculture Department and Food and Drug Administration.
The level of farmworker wages continues to vex the ag industry and farmworker representatives, who say the way they are calculated results in wages being either too low or too high.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack sharply criticized House Republicans’ proposed farm bill Wednesday, saying they are relying on “budget gimmicks” to fund legislation that overpromises but will not deliver for producers.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is announcing the first $300 million in awards to commodity groups today under a $1.2 billion trade promotion initiative he’s funding through his Commodity Credit Corporation spending authority.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has been minimizing concerns that the existing level of foreign ownership of American farmland is a serious risk, saying the bigger issue is farmland being scooped up by “billionaires and Wall Street.”
The Biden administration’s long-awaited guidance for a new tax subsidy for sustainable aviation fuel does little by itself to jump-start the production of SAF made from ag feedstocks like corn ethanol. The most important set of rules are yet to come.
The Treasury Department released long-awaited guidance for a new tax credit for sustainable aviation fuel. Ethanol-derived SAF would be eligible as long as the corn is produced with three climate-smart farming practices.