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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, January 04, 2025
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.
President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Jon Holladay as the chief financial officer at the Department of Agriculture, and Matthew Lyons is now the director of business development, Value-Added Fresh division, for Naturipe Farms.
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.
President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Jon Holladay as the chief financial officer at the Department of Agriculture and former SDA Deputy Secretary Jewel Bronaugh has returned to Virginia State University to be senior adviser to the dean for land-grant initiatives.
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.
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