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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, January 27, 2025
Farm groups are calling for stringent requirements for third-party verifiers of carbon farming projects, including knowledge of crops grown in the U.S. and specific soil types, as USDA seeks to implement the Growing Climate Solutions Act.
The Agriculture Department is launching a $400 million effort with 18 irrigation districts to pay Western farmers to cut back on water use, so long as they promise to keep farming.
USDA has issued one-time payments to farmers, ranchers and forest landowners across the country who experienced discrimination in farm loan programs or did not equitable access to federal resources prior to the start of the Biden administration. In all, $2.2 billion has been disbursed.
The Federal Communications Commission faces a murky path forward in its efforts to bolster phone and internet access in rural America after a federal appeals court deemed the funding source for a number of its connectivity programs unconstitutional.
A University of Illinois economist says U.S. commercial banks overall are better equipped than agricultural banks to withstand losses and less vulnerable to insolvency, due to a stronger level of capital.
The way fees are collected from telecommunications companies for the Universal Service Fund, which defrays the cost of phone and internet access in rural areas, is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court has ruled.
AGCO has agreed to sell most of its grain and protein business for $700 million to American Industrial Partners, an industrials investor worth $16 billion, in an all-cash transaction.
The House has narrowly passed a spending bill containing deep cuts to EPA's budget and dozens of legislative riders that Democrats call “poison pills," setting up a difficult negotiation with the Senate, where the Appropriations Committee advanced a markedly different bill Thursday.
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