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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, August 16, 2024
The Agriculture Department on Wednesday announced it will use $138 million of Inflation Reduction Act funding to enroll 138 new easements into the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program.
National Farmers Union delegates this week debated a wide variety of policy reforms, including whether or not eligibility for commodity programs, crop and livestock insurance should be limited to small and mid-size farming operations.
USDA is struggling to manage sugar supplies amid soaring domestic and international prices and a drought that continues to devastate Mexican growers, slashing the amount they can export to U.S. food and candy manufacturers.
South Dakota lawmakers have passed a trio of bills designed to smooth the path of a carbon pipeline that the ethanol industry considers crucial to its future but that some farmers and other landowners don’t want on their land.
States in the upper and lower halves of the Colorado River basin have unveiled conflicting visions on what path the Bureau of Reclamation should follow when crafting a new framework governing water cuts after current guidelines’ 2026 expiration.
The state of America’s citrus industry is a tale of two coasts. Florida’s industry continues to reel from a devastating disease infestation and multiple hurricanes, and California has taken over as No. 1 in U.S. citrus production.
Wildfires that were once blazing across the panhandle of Texas are being reduced to a smolder, leaving behind clouds of smoke and a long recovery process for the region’s producers.
Some 16 Republican senators are calling on congressional leaders to move legislation that would freeze the adverse effect wage rate for H-2A workers at 2023 levels.