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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, December 22, 2024
The Senate this week tackles a bipartisan border security compromise that likely faces unsurmountable opposition from House Republicans and former President Donald Trump.
Thirty-one lawmakers spend their time outside of the nation’s capitol farming, ranching or running cattle operations, according to a new Congressional Research Service report.
Lawmakers have given themselves another year to write a new farm bill, but they have a limited amount of time to reach bipartisan agreements on critical issues and could easily be forced to pass another long-term extension of the 2018 law.
Two members of the Senate Agriculture Committee have introduced a bipartisan bill aimed at protecting and investing in farmland used for solar production.
Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee are eying big changes to the Conservation Reserve Program in the upcoming farm bill, though many influential voices question whether the efforts will gain much steam.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, plans to attempt once again to reform the existing farm bill payment limits, seeking to tighten the amount of people eligible for the government's agricultural programs.
The House Agriculture Committee is set to hold its first hearing this year on farm bill nutrition programs, while a Senate Agriculture subcommittee this week will analyze the horticulture title.
A bipartisan Senate bill would accelerate a shift in the Conservation Reserve Program toward grasslands and smaller, environmentally sensitive parcels away from the larger tracts that have been traditionally enrolled through the general signup process.
Lawmakers, farm groups and the ag industry are all eager for the Biden administration to move to a dispute process over Mexico’s restrictions on genetically modified white corn, but there’s no sign yet from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative that it’s ready to do that.
