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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, January 04, 2025
Texas Democrat Jasmine Crockett, one of the newest members of the House Ag Committee, wants to make sure consumers having trouble accessing healthy food options get relief when Congress considers changes to the farm bill.
Lawmakers continue to struggle with what to do about commodity programs in a new farm bill, including how to pay for increases in reference prices. One idea is to require farmers to update their base acreage to reflect current plantings.
The idea of updating the base acreage that’s used to determine who gets get commodity payments, and how much, has gotten a fresh boost with the endorsement of the National Corn Growers Association. Members of the group believe the savings from requiring farmers to update their base acres could be used to fund increases in commodity program reference prices, a top priority for many farm groups. But a state-by-state map shows that there could be clear winners and losers in the process.
Farm Credit lenders are asking Congress in the upcoming farm bill to expand their authority to rural community facilities and fisheries projects, but some community bankers are worried the changes will siphon away their business.
President Joe Biden plans to nominate Paul Martin as the inspector general of the United States Agency for International Development and USDA has made some senior staff changes.
A bipartisan quintet of House Ag Committee members visited Maine Monday for a listening session on the next farm bill, and many local speakers used the event to call for improved crop insurance in the region.
House Republican leaders gave up trying to pass the fiscal 2024 Agriculture funding bill ahead of the August recess after they were unable to satisfy demands from a band of hard-line conservatives who are seeking deeper cuts in spending.
A House bill introduced Thursday would address one of the top farm bill goals for specialty crop growers by setting up a grant program to ease the cost of adopting automation in their operations.
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