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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
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.
The Supreme Court’s Clean Water Act decision to limit the federal government’s jurisdiction over “adjacent” wetlands prompted warnings that millions of acres of wetlands could be at risk, but also generated cheers from farm groups that have fought the interpretation of the 50-year-old law for decades.
Two more equipment companies have inked right-to-repair memorandums of understanding with the American Farm Bureau Federation, bringing about 70% of the ag equipment sold in the U.S. under the same umbrella of agreement.
House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Kay Granger on Tuesday postponed scheduled action on the fiscal 2024 Agriculture spending bill and three other measures, citing the ongoing negotiations with the White House over the debt ceiling limit.
Areas within USDA’s Rural Partners Network are set to benefit from a wide array of federal programs as the department rolls out almost $400 million to address longstanding poverty in the regions.
Dan Glickman, the Secretary of Agriculture during the major crop insurance overhaul in 2000, said crop insurance should be the preferred method of risk management rather than a permanent disaster program.