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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, November 05, 2024
Rural Development is one of the most little-known agencies within USDA, but its broad portfolio of programs have been helping rural areas in many unique ways during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Syngenta Group announced the acquisition of Valagro, a leading biologics company - giving the firm a key leadership position in a market which is set to nearly double in size over the next five years.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service is on its way to filling positions needed to deliver technical assistance and other services to farmers across the country, but still has a ways to go, NRCS Acting Chief Kevin Norton told the House Agriculture Committee Thursday.
Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being welcomed by industry groups that see an opportunity to cement a conservative majority for decades to come.
The centerpiece of Joe Biden’s plan to help farmers address climate change is a “dramatic” expansion of the Conservation Stewardship Program, but he’ll quickly find skeptics on Capitol Hill and among environmental groups if he gets elected and tries to carry out the proposal.
Bureau of Land Management decisions made since July 29, 2019, are now vulnerable following a federal judge’s decision that acting BLM director William Perry Pendley was not serving in his position legally.
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service announced Tuesday that it will distribute $25 million in grants created in the 2018 farm bill to 14 projects across the country.
Republicans and Democrats clashed over legislation that would give states a larger role in recovering endangered species at a hearing before the Environment and Public Works Committee Wednesday.
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