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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, October 06, 2024
The Agriculture Department will provide larger disaster-aid payments for losses in 2018 than for 2019 and will offer prevent-plant bonus payments of up to 15% for farmers who were unable to seed crops this spring due to the heavy Midwest flooding, according to rules announced Monday.
Mathis discusses the Trump resistance bill, the reasons why the bill to fix the Friant-Kern Canal failed, and his frustrations over the state’s “environmentalist agenda.”
Feinstein, others oppose SB 1, saying it undermines Newsom’s plans * Court revives water lawsuit * Smog checks for diesel trucks * More opposition to SB 1 * Future of ag trucking uncertain * SB 1 may be shelved * CDFA pushes climate policies
Lawmakers return from their extended summer recess facing pressure from farm groups to ratify the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement and staring at an Oct. 1 deadline to pass a stopgap spending bill and avoid another government shutdown.
During an historic, televised town hall on the climate issue, the leading Democratic presidential hopefuls agreed broadly on imposing taxes or caps on carbon emissions and shifting to electric vehicles, and some candidates said Americans should be encouraged to reduce meat consumption.
Food-insecure households in the United States, defined as those who “had difficulty at some time during the year providing enough food for all their members due to a lack of resources,” declined to prerecession levels last year, USDA's Economic Research Service reported Wednesday.
A lingering downturn in farm profits is starting to show up on the balance sheets of ag organizations, but drops in salaries for the leaders of those groups are exceedingly rare.
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