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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Areas within USDA’s Rural Partners Network are set to benefit from a wide array of federal programs as the department rolls out almost $400 million to address longstanding poverty in the regions.
President Joe Biden is due to meet again today with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as they struggle to reach an agreement to increase the debt ceiling.
Marion Berry, a presidential aide during the Clinton administration and seven-term Democratic congressman from Arkansas, died Friday in Little Rock at after a long illness.
The House Appropriations Committee this week will takes up an unusually partisan funding bill for the USDA and FDA that highlights some major cuts to spending Republicans would like to make, even as President Joe Biden even as debt ceiling negotiations lurch toward a June deadline.
The Agriculture Department will be distributing $500 million this fiscal year through the Regional Conservation Partnership Program, which allows the agency to share costs for regional conservation projects with private entities and state governments.
Dan Glickman, the Secretary of Agriculture during the major crop insurance overhaul in 2000, said crop insurance should be the preferred method of risk management rather than a permanent disaster program.
USDA plans to send Emergency Relief Program and Emergency Livestock Relief Program pre-filled applications directly to eligible producers in early summer for those with qualifying disaster losses for the 2022 calendar year.
Deere and Co. doubled its operating profit from production agriculture in the latest quarter, expecting row-crop farmers to be “very profitable” this year and making money well into 2024 due to the historically strong commodity markets.