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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
A fresh round of Agriculture Department funding is set to invest $401 million to expand internet connectivity to unserved or underserved people in rural parts of the country across 11 states.
The war rages on, but Ukraine is already looking ahead to the task of rebuilding the country, and a new estimate from the Kyiv School of Economics indicates the agriculture sector has already suffered $27.6 billion in damages.
New Mexico dairy farmer Art Schaap, who lost nearly 4,000 of his cows due to PFAS contamination, is still waiting on a payment from the Agriculture Department under the Dairy Indemnity Payment Program even as he struggles to keep his business afloat.
The Department of Agriculture is giving interested parties through the end of August to submit their applications for a new pilot program aiming to support biobased product development.
Lawmakers are well into their preparatory hearings for writing the next farm bill. But a veteran Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee suggests the bill’s fate is going to hinge on whether lawmakers come up with more funding for it.
USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service is collecting comments on a proposed rule and an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking related to poultry grower contracts and the use of a tournament-style system that ranks producers and impacts how much they get paid.
The Biden administration on Thursday pledged to help repair Ukraine’s agriculture sector from the damages of the Russian invasion even as the war rages on and farmers struggle to bring in crops.
A proposed 8,000-head-per-day beef processing facility in South Dakota is joining a packed roster of planned and existing plants that could be forced to compete for shrinking cattle inventories in the years ahead.
Advocates for organic agriculture are praising a new framework from the Agriculture Department to transform the U.S. food system, which includes $300 million for organic development, but questions remain about how USDA will roll out the money.