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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Members of Congress, farm and labor interests joined in support of a new workforce bill that they hope will become a “Christmas miracle” and gain passage before Congress adjourns for the year. But the measure still faces an uphill battle because of timing and opposition from many Republicans.
The advocacy group has embarked on bold strategies to address the shipping crisis, control the narrative on water use and turn almonds from a luxury product to a staple of nutrition programs.
Kai Bockmann has been selected as the new president and CEO of Blue Diamond Growers and the Department of Agriculture has made new senior staff changes.
The lead Republican on the House Agriculture Committee's Conservation and Forestry Subcommittee, fourth-generation rice farmer Doug LeMalfa, wants to ensure in the next Congress that farm conservation practices stay voluntary, and he also intends to focus on what he considers proactive fire and timber management.
In a pessimistic outlook for the 2023 farm economy, CoBank analysts say the upcoming year will be shaped by political gridlock in Washington and financial conditions that soften the American economy into a period of economic contraction.
Congress faces a Friday deadline for keeping the government funded, while the Agriculture Department this week will announce a second round of projects that will test approaches to developing and marketing low-carbon commodities.
California Farm Bureau President Jamie Johansson painted a grim state of the industry following “a year of challenges like no other,” aiming his frustrations at state policies, lamenting: “It doesn’t have to be this way.”
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