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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, January 16, 2025
The Republican Congress is likely to grant President Obama the fast track procedure known as Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), allowing him to submit trade agreements for an up-or-down vote in Congress, former Agriculture Secretary and U.S. Senator Mike J
Republicans and Democrats are trading accusations of hypocrisy over renewing the $500,000 Section 179 business expensing allowance and other expired tax benefits.
A battle looms on Capitol Hill over transportation: Where to get the revenue to build and maintain the nations highways, bridges, transit systems and how to divvy up those federal dollars?
U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson not only threw out a suit seeking to block USDA from implementing its new National Poultry Inspection System (NPIS), but she suggested that critics of the system were relying on unsupported and overblown claims.
Whether you agree or disagree with Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, you always know where he stands. And for about a decade, he has consistently crusaded for actively engaged limits on the amount of money large entities can receive from federal farm programs in an effort to mai
The state of Colorado is suing the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) over the agency's decision under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to list the Gunnison sage grouse as a threatened species and designate more than 1.4 million acres as critical habitat in Utah an
Dozens of conservation and gardening organizations have joined together to form the National Pollinator Garden Network while issuing a challenge to the nation to plant 1 million additional pollinator gardens by the end of 2016.
Congressional critics of crop insurance are citing the rising cost estimates for the 2014 farm bills commodity programs to justify slashing growers premium subsidies.
Congressional Republicans are turning up the volume in their battle with Federal Communications Chairman Tom Wheeler and his net neutrality proposal.
Lawmakers are trying to keep pressure on West Coast port operators and the longshoremans union to settle the contract dispute that has snarled Asia-bound agricultural exports.
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