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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
A bipartisan group of lawmakers are introducing legislation today to ensure the government keeps using U.S. commodities to provide food aid around the world. About half the funds for the Food for Peace program are currently used to purchase and deliver U.S. farm goods.
The Department of Agriculture and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are teaming up to improve ag and earth science research and technology while also working to inspire young people to seek careers in STEM and agriculture.
Farmers going through difficult times financially would have fewer options for assistance if House Republicans’ spending plan for fiscal 2024 were to become law.
House Democrats accused Republicans of breaking the debt ceiling agreement by advancing a fiscal 2024 spending bill for USDA and FDA that would cut funding to near FY22 levels while also relying on funding rescissions that have little chance of being enacted.
The Bureau of Reclamation and the seven states that share the Colorado River’s water are preparing to return to the negotiating table to decide the future of the river’s water as the current guidelines governing drought-related water cuts nears its 2026 expiration.
USDA is distributing almost $714 million for broadband connectivity projects through the fourth round of the ReConnect Program, an announcement that will direct loan and grant funding to 33 projects across the country.
House Republicans proposed a tax package Friday that would impose a new excise tax of up to 60% on purchases of U.S. farmland by China and other “countries of concern."
Weakening corn and soybean demand revealed in Friday’s USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates could keep a lid on grain and oilseed prices.
Critics of commodity checkoffs are making a fresh run at imposing new restrictions on the programs, including a prohibition on contracting research and promotion work out to organizations that lobby Congress or federal agencies.