Articles Tagged with ''Bureau of Reclamation''

Washington Week Ahead: FDA set to respond to demands for overhaul

Senators continue farm bill review, corn growers seek Hill help

01/29/23 11:00 AM By Philip Brasher, Bill Tomson, and Noah Wicks

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf is due to announce this week what steps he'll to take to tighten leadership of the agency’s food programs, while the Senate Agriculture Committee resumes its hearings on the next farm bill, and corn growers try to raise awareness of Mexico's looming ban on biotech corn.

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Farm Hands on the Potomac: Thornton becomes partner of Stratovation Group

11/09/22 6:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

Mace Thornton has joined Stratovation Group as partner and COO to lead integrated client services and Christopher Galen has been selected to serve as the executive director of the American Butter Institute.

Interior Department to pay Lower Colo. Basin users for water reductions

10/12/22 4:53 PM By Noah Wicks

The Interior Department announced Wednesday its plans to funnel part of the $4 billion in drought funding it received through the Inflation Reduction Act into a program that would pay Lower Colorado Basin water users to leave portions of their water deliveries in Lake Mead.

Reclamation mulls allocation of $4B for Western drought impacts

08/24/22 7:33 AM By Noah Wicks

The Bureau of Reclamation has reached out to agriculture interests in the West as the agency considers how to spend the $4 billion earmarked in the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act for bolstering water-saving efforts in the Colorado River Basin and other drought-stricken areas.

Daybreak Aug. 19: Supercharging photosynthesis: Study finds major yield boost

08/19/22 10:00 AM By Philip Brasher, Noah Wicks, Steve Davies, Bill Tomson, and Sara Wyant

Scientists are reporting some major success in sharply boosting crop yields by engineering plants to be more efficient at photosynthesis - their process of turning light into food.

States still at odds over measures to deal with drought-starved Colo. River

08/17/22 8:51 AM By Noah Wicks

The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that Colorado River water shortages had passed a threshold that will require unprecedented water cuts in Arizona and Nevada, but a multi-state consensus on future cuts remains elusive.

States fail to agree on Colorado River water cuts

08/16/22 8:52 PM By Noah Wicks

Seven states in the Colorado River Basin have emerged from 3 months of negotiations with no agreement for how to conserve between 2 and 4 million acre-feet of water in 2023, leaving that decision in the hands of the Bureau of Reclamation.

Daybreak August 8: House is next, after climate bill passes Senate

08/08/22 10:00 AM By Steve Davies, Philip Brasher, and Noah Wicks

The U.S. House should be the final stop this week for a historic funding package aimed at slashing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Western Democrats win $4B for drought as part of spending bill

08/05/22 4:40 PM By Philip Brasher

The climate funding package that Senate Democrats expect to pass this weekend will include $4 billion in drought-related funding for the Bureau of Reclamation.

Reclamation weighs emergency measures to save key reservoirs

06/15/22 6:30 AM By Philip Brasher

The Bureau of Reclamation is working on new steps to prevent further depletion of drought-stricken Colorado River reservoirs that are critical for agriculture and cities but shrinking to levels that can’t sustain hydropower.

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11.22.2024

Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Nov. 22, 2024: Sen. Jerry Moran on disaster aid, farm bill

The race is on to pass a farm bill extension before the end of the year after Senate Ag Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow released her farm bill text this week and it was rejected by Republicans. We asked Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., about the future of the farm bill and prospects for a package of market loss relief and disaster aid in December.

Then, NASDA’s RJ Karney and NFU’s Aaron Shier discuss what agriculture can expect from the Trump administration.

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