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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
The House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee voted Monday to recommend Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig to take over as ranking member of the Agriculture Committee in 2025, unseating the party’s current leader, David Scott.
In this opinion piece, Dana M. O’Brien, president and founder of BioHarbor Strategies, argues that former President Donald Trump's embrace of RFK Jr could negatively affect U.S. agriculture.
In this opinion piece, Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, argues that the latest forecasts for farm income and agricultural trade underscore the need for a new farm bill.
Tim Walz leaned on values learned during his rural upbringing in Nebraska, his experience in Congress, and as governor of Minnesota to make the case that Kamala Harris should be president of the United States — and he should be the vice president.
House Republicans and Democrats on Thursday sparred over USDA nutrition programs at a hearing on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, highlighting partisan divides over funding for food assistance in the 2023 farm bill.
New congressional maps that states have finalized based on the 2020 census will leave at least six members of the House Agriculture Committee facing tough re-election races this fall.
A stopgap-funding bill that will keep the government operating this fall includes a $10 billion expansion in agricultural disaster aid and temporarily extends authority for USDA’s livestock price reporting system.
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