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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, November 04, 2024
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is making headway on a major Mississippi River project that will make barge transportation on the river more efficient.
The California Air Resource Board’s decision to ban the sale of new gas-powered passenger vehicles by 2035 is likely to have an impact well beyond that state’s borders.
USDA is going to use the upcoming Census of Agriculture to find out where farmers are using precision agriculture methods and to identify parts of the country where there are gaps in high-speed internet access.
The Food and Drug Administration is seeking input on its regulation of animal feed that's marketed with environmental claims and has scheduled a virtual listening session on the topic for Oct. 18.
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says the handful of funding recipients for USDA’s Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities Program he announced Tuesday should provide a framework for a broader rollout in two weeks.
Seven western agricultural groups are pressing the Bureau of Reclamation to quickly determine how it plans to spend $4 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funding to incentivize water conservation in drought-stricken areas.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Sen. Patty Murray announced Thursday that the energy and navigation benefits currently provided by four dams on the lower Snake River would need to be replaced before they will support breaching them to restore salmon populations.
The California Air Resources Board approved a ban on the sale of new gas-powered passenger vehicles by 2035, a move that farm groups fear will raise production costs in the state while shrinking a vital market for Midwest corn growers and the nation's ethanol industry.
The Bureau of Reclamation has reached out to agriculture interests in the West as the agency considers how to spend the $4 billion earmarked in the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act for bolstering water-saving efforts in the Colorado River Basin and other drought-stricken areas.
The recently enacted climate law could provide $745 billion to $1.9 trillion in benefits to the nation through 2050 from the reduced impacts of climate change, according to an analysis by the White House Office of Management and Budget.
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