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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, October 18, 2024
Members of the House are returning today for what is expected to be the last series of votes before Speaker Mike Johnson dismisses the chamber for an early August recess. The House isn’t due to return to work until Sept. 9.
About one in eleven people globally faced hunger last year, demonstrating the world is falling short of its Zero Hunger by 2030 ambitions, according to a recent report by United Nations agencies.
Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has a decidedly mixed record when it comes to agriculture in her home state of California, the nation’s No. 1 state by far in agricultural production.
Republicans left the GOP convention expressing fresh optimism that they could make significant gains in the Senate in November, but President Joe Biden’s decision to end his re-election effort has injected new uncertainty into swing-state races.
Commodity groups are mounting a push to convince the Commerce department to limit the potential tariffs it could place on imports of herbicide ingredient 2,4-D from China and India as a result of an investigation into allegations that imports from these countries are being sold in the U.S. at “less than fair value.”
Republican members of the House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party are raising concerns about the Agriculture Department’s quick approval of a variety of genetically modified soybeans developed by Chinese company Qi Biodesign.
A new analysis finds Americans are increasingly choosing dairy products as snacks, boosting dairy retail sales by 15.4% over the past three years, even as fluid milk consumption declines.
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced an additional 25 selected recipients in 30 states and one tribe for the second phase of its Climate Pollution Reduction Grants, which fund community-driven climate solutions.