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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, January 12, 2025
USDA has awarded a $3.6 million grant to the Seattle Jobs Initiative (SGI) to set up a so-called Center of Excellence designed to develop and disseminate best practices to help state job training centers find work for participants in the Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Pr
Paul Ryan took over as House speaker with the support of all but Republican on the House Agriculture Committee and most of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus. Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida was the lone Republican on Agriculture to vote against Ryan, opting instead for fellow Floridian D
House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway was negotiating with congressional GOP leaders on a deal to avert a $3 billion cut to crop insurers contained a two-year budget agreement.
The Senate has approved a short-term highway bill extension that included a delay in the mandated implementation of positive train control (PTC), averting a potential shutdown of rail networks across the country.
The House Agriculture Committee heard from the private sector Wednesday on how it plans to safely use the pbig datap American producers collect with farm equipment during their day-to-day operations.
The newly formed Foundation for Food and Agricultural held its first public meeting Wednesday, announcing two projects p one aimed at honoring emerging researchers and another that will create a prapid responsep program targeting new threats.
USDA said today that its Biofuel Infrastructure Partnership (BIP) is investing $210 million in 21 states to nearly double the number of gas station pumps nationwide that supply renewable fuels to American motorists.
If the right energy policy choices are made, the Department of Energy forecasts that wind power's current 4.5 percent of the nation's end-use demand could surge to 10 percent by 2020, 20 percent by 2030 and 35 percent by 2050.
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