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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, January 04, 2025
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.
Clarice Turner has been selected as the next president and CEO of the Almond Board of California, replacing Richard Waycott who plans to retire at the end of this year.
House Democrats are charting a new path to writing a farm bill this year with the formation a special leadership-appointed task force that’s working on recommendations for the legislation.
Reducing food waste can shrink agriculture’s environmental footprint while helping to feed the hungry and conserve resources, but since food waste occurs across all sectors of the food chain, reducing it will require coordination and funding.
Torres Small takes over as USDA’s deputy from Kevin Shea, the administrator of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and Kevin McAdams has been tapped as the next CEO of Perdue Farms.
The House is approaching another partisan face-off, this time over funding the government for the next fiscal year, after Republicans narrowly won passage of a defense authorization bill last week.
As Congress prepares to begin replacing the 2018 farm bill with new legislation, a thorough study of how long the process has taken before offers insight into how long the upcoming undertaking might last.
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