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Monday, April 07, 2025
WASHINGTON, May 3, 2017 - Lawmakers’ stunning failure to agree on aid to cotton and dairy producers has left the House and Senate Agriculture committees facing a multibillion-dollar budget hole as they prepare to write the next farm bill.
WASHINGTON, May 1, 2017 - A congressional agreement to fund the government for the rest of fiscal 2017 largely rejects President Trump’s proposed cuts in food aid and other agricultural programs but also fails to provide new assistance sought by cotton and dairy producers.
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2017 - Republican demands for cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program slowed down consideration of the 2014 farm bill, and the issue ...
WASHINGTON, April 19, 2017- Congressional budget negotiators want to finish work on a fiscal 2017 agreement that would avert a government shutdown next week...
WASHINGTON, April 19, 2017- Even as Congress prepares to write a new farm bill, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is snarled in an investigation of state mismanagement that raises questions about USDA’s oversight of the program.
March 20 served as the unofficial kickoff of the farm bill debate, as legislators, administration officials, commodity organizations, and rural business leaders came together...
WASHINGTON, April 10, 2017 – After his state was shorted in recent enrollment of Conservation Reserve Program contracts, South Dakota Sen. John Thune is suggesting the next farm bill give the program a higher acreage cap and more flexibility.
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2017 - State agencies that are beginning to implement new produce safety and other standards required by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) will need a lot more money in fiscal 2018...
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2017 - School food service directors, who say they’ve been struggling to meet increased nutrition standards that have boosted food costs, are looking for some help in the next farm bill.
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