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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Under pressure from rural lawmakers, House Democratic leaders are expected to ensure USDA can continue making trade assistance payments to farmers after the new fiscal year starts Oct. 1.
House Democratic leaders are aiming to push through a stopgap spending bill this week after threatening a fight with the White House, and potentially with some of their own rural members, over a plan that could jeopardize farmers’ trade aid payments.
House Democrats are considering a stopgap spending bill that could prevent or slow delivery of President Trump's trade aid payments to farmers after the fiscal year ends Sept. 30.
The Democratic presidential candidates are rallying around a carbon tax as a central solution to climate change, but putting the idea into law will mean overcoming concerns of farm groups about the tax’s intended goal - raising the cost of fossil fuels.
The incident demonstrates how the failure of any one lock can have a huge and potentially catastrophic impact on the regional economy and a number of sectors throughout the nation.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s ruling on a lawsuit by environmental groups involving a long-running water cleanup project in the San Joaquin Valley.
The California State Senate has voted to confirm the nomination of two individuals to the State Water Resources Board and the California Fish and Game Commission has elected a new executive director.
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.
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