Articles Tagged with ''Senate Agriculture Committee''

The Biden administration improperly increased Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits without filing a formal report to Congress first, the Government Accountability Office has decided.

Senate Democrats don’t have a vote to spare this week as they try to pass their historic climate package, including more than $20 billion aimed at helping farmers adopt practices that reduce greenhouse emissions.

Battles for key farm-state seats in Congress are taking shape after primaries this spring, but there several intraparty fights still to be decided in coming weeks in states such as Missouri, Minnesota and Washington.

The Senate Agriculture Committee is expected this week to approve proposals aimed at weakening the market power of meatpackers but have long divided producers.

Representatives of major farm groups told leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Friday that the existing farm bill programs are inadequate to protect farmers from rising input costs.

House Democrats, struggling to maintain their tenuous control over the House amid soaring food and fuel prices, win passage of a package of bills aimed at promoting competition in the meat sector, reducing fertilizer usage and expanding the use of biofuels.

After months of delay, President Biden has finally nominated a longtime USDA staff member as the chief ag negotiator at USTR and Ocean Mist Farms has hired Jenny Rivera.

President Joe Biden has nominated a longtime aide to be the chief agricultural negotiator for the office of the U.S. Trade Representative and Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kan., has joined the House Agriculture Committee.

The House is expected to clear a bill this week aimed at ending port bottlenecks and also pass a package of measures that Democrats claim will help bring food, fertilizer and fuel prices under control.