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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, January 13, 2025
The Senate Agriculture Committee reached a bipartisan agreement with the House for extending grain inspection standards and livestock price reporting with protections to prevent future disruptions in service. The legislation, which has the support of the House Agriculture Committee, wo
Top executives from 23 companies that produce advanced and cellulosic biofuels are calling on President Obama and the EPA to remove a waiver provision in the latest Renewable Fuel Standard proposal that would allow oil companies to challenge RFS blending requirements because of so-called °
Facing the possibility that crude oil prices could drop below the current range of $45 to $50 a barrel, far below June 2014 s $114 peak, oil producers and their allies in Congress are pushing hard to end the 40-year-old ban on crude exports
The U.S. leads the world in wind energy generation, but if the wind industry is going to reach its goal of being °vibrant and self-sustaining,° the renewable energy production tax credit (PTC) must be extended, according to a white paper by the American Wi
This fall is shaping up to be key for federal wildlife policy. First, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is due this month to decide whether the sage grouse needs to be listed for protection under the Endangered Species Act.
A leading environmental group is exploring a plan to pay farmers to set aside edges or corners of their fields to serve as habitat for the monarch butterfly.
Skirmishes are breaking out in Arizona, New Mexico and Washington, D.C., over the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service°s (FWS) decision to expand the experimental population boundaries for the endangered Mexican gray wolf and the agency°s more recent push to
Two key members of the Obama administration addressed renewable fuel supporters Tuesday in Washington, but didn°t tip their hand about the upcoming release of the Renewable Fuel Standard.
Farm program payments shouldn°t come anywhere close to exceeding the annual limit that the United States can spend on trade-distorting subsidies under World Trade Organization rules, according to a new analysis published in the economic research journal Choices.
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