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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
The USDA Equity Commission is recommending a study into the potential termination of the Farm Service Agency county committees and is recommending USDA stand up a program to ensure county committee minority advisers have direct access to the FSA administrator.
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.
New legislation from a bipartisan pair of Senate Ag Committee members adds an additional wrinkle to the conversation about foreign purchases of U.S. farmland.
The Biden administration is taking new steps to protect producers from discriminatory practices, through a combination of new Agriculture Department regulations and funding to states for increasing enforcement of competition laws.
The Biden administration hosts the first White House conference on hunger and nutrition in more than 50 years to debate a national strategy that officials will unveil ahead of the Wednesday meeting.
A Kansas Republican says he wants to make sure crop insurance is protected if any kind of permanent disaster program is written into the upcoming farm bill.
The Biden administration is being pushed to consider dismantling the county committee system that USDA has long relied on to manage farm programs at the local level.
The commission studying discrimination in Agriculture Department programs says USDA should look closely at eliminating the county committee system that has historically played a large role in the Farm Service Agency’s management of farm programs.