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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, October 03, 2024
Reducing methane emitted by dairy and beef cattle is crucial for meeting a new global pledge to cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas worldwide by about a third by the end of the decade.
Water scarcity poses a grave threat to consumer staples, including packaged meat, according to the sustainability nonprofit Ceres. In a new report, it estimates the total risk at $200 billion.
Farmers and water managers across the West are bracing for another potentially dry year, even as they wait for rain and snow that could help alleviate drought conditions. But with climate change reducing annual snowpack and the water it promises, the Bureau of Reclamation is in search of new and more accurate forecast tools.
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a retroactive cut to previously established volumetric targets under the nation’s biofuel mandate while leaving room for increases going forward.
Truterra, a Land O’ Lakes subsidiary focused on sustainability, announced on Monday details about the second iteration of its carbon program, which will start in 2022.
Bob Dole’s death Sunday brought a slew of tributes for the Kansas legislator who helped expand the food stamp program and whose name is on a significant international food program.
The House ventures into the debate over livestock pricing this week, taking up a bill that would require USDA to compile data on cattle contracts, while congressional Democratic leaders try to find a way to raise the debt ceiling and finalize a Senate deal on their Build Back Better plan.
Agri-Pulse has obtained the Senate's revised ag provisions for the Build Back Better bill. They would increase funding for conservation technical assistance by more than $2 billion and provide more modest increases for ag research.