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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, November 11, 2024
Agriculture groups must build a broader base of support for farm programs by strengthening relationships with nutrition advocates, environmental groups and minority farmers, a trio of farm policy veterans told leaders of the National Corn Growers Association on Thursday.
A pair of senior House and Senate Democrats are offering legislation that would spin off the existing food safety functions of the Food and Drug Administration into a new, separate federal agency.
The 2018 farms bill’s main commodity programs will probably provide little help to most farmers who struggling this year with soaring production costs, but lawmakers included key provisions in the 2018 farm bill that could help growers significantly over the next few years.
Increasing food production without using additional water and land resources could be possible through further developments in irrigation and water engineer, plant breeding and gene editing, and innovative management of things like heat and sunlight.
In a conversation with Agri-Pulse, Brian Wahlbrink shared his thoughts on the value of once again meeting in person, the challenges ahead for farmers and what it felt like to be Thor.
Inflation across every sector of the food industry has left companies with the choice: to raise prices or hold steady and shrink the volume of food offered, a process called shrinkflation.
If the current trend of farmland conversion continues, the United States will lose an area nearly the size of South Carolina in the not-too-distant future.
As the drought deepens and climate action heats up in California, the Water Blueprint for the San Joaquin Valley is gaining a foothold with leaders in Sacramento.
Stakeholders gathered for the first-ever Monarch Butterfly Summit in Washington, D.C. last week and the Interior Department announced a major investment in conservation.