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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Just one day after President Donald Trump made a historic speech at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 99th annual convention, the organization’s 353 delegates approved a hard-fought dues increase and a vast array of new policy positions.
After scoring a major political victory with the passage of tax reform legislation in December, the Trump White House hopes to notch another win by passing legislation to upgrade the nation’s neglected infrastructure, including highways, bridges, broadband and marine transportation systems.
The Idaho Attorney General’s office said it’s reviewing a federal appeals court decision striking down the state’s ag-gag law, which criminalized hidden-camera recordings of farm operations.
A former employee of an Oklahoma accounting firm has been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison and is ordered to pay back $2.3 million she embezzled from the Oklahoma Beef Council over the course of seven years.
USDA has awarded the Division of Animal Sciences at the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources $300,000 to develop the National Center for Applied Reproduction and Genomics in Beef Cattle.
Rural hospitals, nursing homes and other health care facilities provided more than 1.25 million wage and salary jobs in 2011, accounting for 8.5 percent of rural wage and salary employment, says a new USDA report.
The Trump administration’s task force on rural prosperity is calling for expanding broadband essential to improving the rural America by removing regulatory barriers and providing new incentives for private investment.
American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall kicked off his organization’s annual meeting by showing his adulation for the new political climate in Washington.
President Trump puts a focus on agriculture and rural America as he heads to Nashville to address the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual convention on Monday in his first major speech since signing the sweeping tax bill before Christmas.
A bipartisan group of senators is urging the Trump administration to propose more funding to fix the troubled locks and dams along the Mississippi River that threaten a key transportation system for the nation's grain and oilseed exports.