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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Two members of the Senate Agriculture Committee have introduced a bipartisan bill aimed at protecting and investing in farmland used for solar production.
Interest in agrivoltaics is increasing as the practice is seen as a potential solution to competing land use, and a bipartisan pair of senators is pushing for new research funding in the next farm bill.
Kathy Eichlin has been selected as the head of U.S. crop protection corporate communications for Syngenta North America and Former Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., has joined Husch Blackwell Strategies, where he will chair a new leadership strategies advisory services group.
Alyssa Houtby has joined the North American Blueberry Council as the new director of government affairs and Loree Dowse and Paul Ensley have joined Church Bros. Farms.
A nationalized version of a crop insurance discount program for farmers who plant cover crops in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa is one of the ideas the table for the next farm bill, as lawmakers and environmental groups look for new ways to incentivize cover crops.
Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed Kayla Ungar as the special adviser for climate, water, and drought at the California Department of Food and Agriculture and Audrey Denney now serves as the vice president of business development for ag and rural at Pathion Holdings.
Autumn Price moves to a new role and American Farmland Trust has hired Bonnie Michelle McGill as the senior climate and soil health scientist and Rachel Seman-Varner as the senior soil health and biochar scientist.
In this opinion piece, Bianca Moebius-Clune, Ph.D., and Samantha Levy of American Farmland Trust discuss how theSupreme Courtdealt a setback for climate goals, but farmers and ranchers can lead us forward.
If the current trend of farmland conversion continues, the United States will lose an area nearly the size of South Carolina in the not-too-distant future.
