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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
The State Senate has unveiled an agriculture budget proposal that rejects the Newsom administration’s bid to overhaul the state’s mill assessment on pesticides.
The Agriculture Department continues to insist that working lands will be included in the Biden administration’s goal of conserving 30% of the nation’s land and waters by 2030, as the administration prepares to flesh out some of the details of its 30x30 initiative.
High commodity prices are fueling farmers' optimism as planters get rolling this spring, but in some areas the lack of rain this spring is making producers nervous as they plant into the dusty ground.
California lawmakers are considering a bill to ease the rules for unions recruiting workers, as the Supreme Court considers setting limits on California's landmark farmworker law.
A broad coalition of farm and conservation groups says a USDA-run carbon bank should be used to test ways to establish carbon accounting guidelines, expand the use of climate-friendly farming practices and enable small-scale farms and minority producers to benefit from carbon markets.
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted plenty of commodity markets and some of the most glaring examples occurred in the dairy industry. Now, the industry is looking to recoup losses and prevent the problem from recurring, but dairy leaders are far from united on the path forward.
Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat who’s one of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s newest members, is jumping into a range of farm policy issues, including pushing for as much as $20 billion a year in new conservation spending to be part of an upcoming climate and infrastructure package.
Nearly 300 organizations exporting ag and forest products are urging Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to protect exporters and their access to foreign markets.
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