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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, August 16, 2024
Writing a new farm bill in 2023 will require investing countless hours in educating over 200 new members of Congress and also may mean navigating fights over spending, according to lawmakers and trade association leaders advocating on behalf of the crop insurance industry.
Twelve House Republicans were added to the Agriculture Committee on Monday, including Oklahoma Rep. Frank Lucas, who chaired the panel during development of the 2014 farm bill.
Congressional unease over foreign investment in the U.S. agriculture sector has spawned a heap of proposals meant to give agricultural acquisitions additional scrutiny in reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
Last week’s report from the Department of Agriculture offered a laundry list of reasons for why beef markets behaved the way they did after two cataclysmic events hit the sector in as many years. But the 21-page document also contained something else: a legislative and regulatory to-do list for an industry well-known for infighting and disagreement.
Former White House physician Ronny Jackson pledged to keep pushing President Donald Trump's "America First" agenda after winning the GOP nomination for a Texas congressional seat over a cattle industry lobbyist who was backed by the Texas Farm Bureau and other state and national ag groups.
Snowballing signals from the White House of losing patience over the slow pace of ratification of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement could force a showdown with House Democrats, and there’s a lot at stake for the U.S. ag sector.
Krysta Harden, who served as senior vice president and chief sustainability officer for Corteva Agriscience, the Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, has left the firm.
The strained farm bill negotiations have erupted in partisan bickering amid darkening prospects for reaching an agreement by the end of the year to replace the 2014 law, which expires Sunday, Sept. 30.