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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, December 04, 2024
The Senate Appropriations Committee met Wednesday to discuss the need for disaster funding across different sectors. Deputy Agriculture Secretary Xochitl Torres Small and other representatives of the administration appeared before the committee to discuss ongoing work to recover from disasters like Hurricane Helene and Milton.
The agriculture sustainability conversation in the U.S and globally has moved from “niche to norm” and is likely to keep growing, despite changes coming in a new Trump administration, according to former EPA ag adviser Rod Snyder, who delivered the keynote address at the Sustainable Agriculture Summit in Minneapolis today.
Key lawmakers are working on a two-pronged approach to help row crop producers who’ve been hit by the downturn in commodity markets. A lot of work remains to be done, but the goal is to attach some kind of ag relief to a one-year farm bill extension in December.
Leaders of the House and Senate Ag committees are in active discussions about putting elements of a farm bill in an end-of-the year aid package, including possible new funding for commodity programs as well as crop insurance reimbursements.
China is ending an export tax rebate for used cooking oil, a common feedstock for renewable diesel, in a move analysts say could spur higher prices and prompt U.S. biofuel producers to explore other oil sources.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services has caused some concern among the food, nutrition and agriculture industry who are uncertain how MAHA could exactly influence a Trump White House, and impact outstanding regulations on Dietary Guidelines and a healthy food definition.
The incoming Trump Administration could be consequential for determining the fate of a slate of Biden Administration agricultural competition policies, including its efforts to update rules under the Packers and Stockyards Act.
The departments of Homeland Security and Labor need to streamline their operation of the H-2A farmworker program both to facilitate electronic processing of applications and more quickly identify workers who are due back wages, the Government Accountability Office said in a report issued last week.
Republicans are seeking input from biofuel stakeholders on what future tax policy should look like now that the GOP will have control in the White House and both chambers of Congress.
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