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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, October 06, 2024
House Republican leaders continued to struggle Wednesday to get the party support they need to bring up the fiscal 2024 spending bill for USDA and FDA.
Farmers and rural entrepreneurs told the House Committee on Small Business on Wednesday they’re often unaware of federal government resources intended to support them.
Major commodity programs are mounting a defense of federal checkoff programs, which are being targeted by a proposed amendment to USDA’s fiscal 2024 appropriations bill.
Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee are eying big changes to the Conservation Reserve Program in the upcoming farm bill, though many influential voices question whether the efforts will gain much steam.
Lawmakers are about to break for their August recess with just two months to go before some programs in the 2018 farm bill expire, and not even a draft of the new legislation is in sight. But the stakes for not passing a fresh farm bill on time may be lower this year than in the past.
America’s airlines have ambitious plans for using more biofuel, and the feedstocks in their sights include obscure oilseed crops such as camelina. However, crop insurance policy stands in the way.
House Republican leaders have been struggling to get the votes to move a partisan fiscal 2024 funding bill for USDA and FDA ahead of the long summer recess, raising fresh doubts about how soon lawmakers can start working on the farm bill this fall.
Prospects for moving a farm bill anytime soon are anything but improved with the director of the Congressional Budget Office telling lawmakers he can’t add staff to work on the legislation.
The director of the Congressional Budget Office on Thursday pushed back against concerns that its analysts are taking too long to deliver farm bill cost estimates to the House and Senate Ag committees and said it wasn’t practical to add staff to deal with the legislation.