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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
A group of hard-line conservatives are threatening to derail the fiscal 2024 appropriations process in the House, further clouding prospects for an agreement on spending with the Senate later this year, including legislation funding USDA and FDA.
Recent rains have brought some relief to producers reeling from drought in the Midwest, though many are hoping more will arrive to help usher their crops through the rest of the growing season.
Xochitl Torres Small, a former congresswoman and the granddaughter of farmworkers, was easily confirmed by the Senate Tuesday as USDA's new deputy agriculture secretary.
The House and Senate Agriculture Committees are still several months away from voting on a new farm bill, but the major issues in each of the 12 titles are coming into focus even as lawmakers continue offering new proposals they’d like to see included. Here is a summary of the issues in play as well as notable proposals lawmakers would like to see included in the bill.
The Biden administration plans to incorporate a recent Supreme Court decision into its existing Waters of the U.S. rulemaking rather than withdraw the rule in its entirety.
Republicans are looking to force a House vote on a Bureau of Land Management plan to allow the issuance of conservation leases on land the agency controls.
USDA has tentatively chosen 50 projects to receive $300 million designed to “help improve access to land, capital, and markets for underserved farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners,” the department said Thursday.
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday advanced a fiscal 2024 spending bill for USDA and FDA that’s funded in line with the caps in the recently enacted debt ceiling agreement and without the $8 billion in funding rescissions that House Republicans are using to fund their version of the legislation.