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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, November 04, 2024
Georgia’s Sanford Bishop and Virginia’s Abigail Spanberger were among Democrats surviving close races Tuesday as Republicans failed to knock off some top targets in their quest to take over the House.
Higher herbicide prices driven by supply shortages helped drive Bayer earnings above analysts’ estimates for the third quarter, as the company’s crop science division achieved an overall sales increase of 8.4% from the third quarter in 2021, to more than $4.7 billion.
Companies planning thousands of miles of pipelines to transport liquid carbon dioxide throughout the Midwest are making slow but steady progress in obtaining voluntary easements, but the projects still face fierce opposition from many property owners, including farmers.
An Agriculture Department program that is set to play a big role in the Biden administration's efforts to deploy renewable energy and increase energy efficiency on farms and in rural areas has been steering the bulk of its funding into solar projects, but USDA officials will be looking to diversify technologies somewhat with a historic infusion of new funding from the Inflation Reduction Act
Republicans are widely expected to win control of the House in today’s mid-term elections, and GOP chances of winning the Senate appeared to be rising as well in recent days.
The latest international climate conference, known as COP27, kicked off Sunday in Egypt, with an expected focus on helping developing countries deal with climate change.
A consent decree between the Environmental Protection Agency and biofuel trade association Growth Energy has been modified to give the Biden administration until the end of November to finalize its proposal for upcoming renewable fuels blending requirements.
Congressional Democrats are struggling to save a number of their colleagues from defeat in Tuesday’s mid-term elections, and former House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson knows why.
In a report that was immediately attacked as “shoddy” by the renewable fuels industry but welcomed by lawmakers representing refineries, the Government Accountability Office said recent denials of small refinery exemption petitions are based on “a potentially flawed assumption."
Russia has once again cleared the way for grain to move out of the Black Sea. Now, United Nations officials are working to ensure that Russian fertilizer can be exported as well.
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