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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, January 04, 2025
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Friday announced $2.7 billion in total funding from USDA's Commodity Credit Corp. account to build domestic fertilizer capacity, support school meal providers and fund emergency commodity purchases by states.
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday advanced a fiscal 2024 spending bill for USDA and FDA that’s funded in line with the caps in the recently enacted debt ceiling agreement and without the $8 billion in funding rescissions that House Republicans are using to fund their version of the legislation.
Janie Hipp has been tapped as the new lead of the Native Agriculture Financial Services organization and Shelby Young has joined USA Rice as the new manager of government affairs.
House Republicans were arguing not long ago that a deal on the debt ceiling could make it easier to pass a farm bill. Instead, many conservatives are angry over the debt agreement and demanding cuts to nutrition assistance and other programs that could delay the development of a new farm bill and even threaten its passage.
Farmers and ranchers looking to serve their community next year can now be nominated for the Farm Service Agency’s county committees. This year, the Department of Agriculture is streamlining the process with the addition of a GIS tool for producers to make nominations and vote.
Shelby Scarpa has been added to the D.C. Legislative and Regulatory Services team as senior vice president of government relations and Janie Hipp has been tapped as the new lead of the Native Agriculture Financial Services (NAFS) organization.
Dairy Farmers of America, a major dairy cooperative with 83 processing facilities, had decided to withdraw its membership from the International Dairy Foods Association over IDFA’s decision to proceed with its single-issue petition to modify the federal milk marketing order system.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, plans to attempt once again to reform the existing farm bill payment limits, seeking to tighten the amount of people eligible for the government's agricultural programs.
House Democrats accused Republicans of breaking the debt ceiling agreement by advancing a fiscal 2024 spending bill for USDA and FDA that would cut funding to near FY22 levels while also relying on funding rescissions that have little chance of being enacted.
Gregg Doud has been tapped as the next president and CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation and Steve Mangapit has been selected as the new president of Pinnacle Claims Management, succeeding David Zanze, who retired after 38 years of service.
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