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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
The Romney “camp†hopes they can build on momentum earned from five straight victories in Maine, Michigan, Arizona, Wyoming and Washington state to cruise to victory in the 10 states that on Tuesday will decide how more than 400 delegates get allocated.
Conservation is important to developing new sources of American-made energy, said President Obama in his remarks at the Conservation Conference in Washington, DC.
Mitt Romney stuck to farm policy themes that he has outlined in his previous run for the presidency: Food security, no unilateral disarmament, and open markets for agricultural products
If a Farm Bill is written this year, it needs to be about more than just “tinkering with the payment system†by investing in agricultural research and beginning farmers and ranchers, Agriculture Secretary Vilsack said during the 2012 Commodity Classic in Nashville today.
Increased regulations on U.S. poultry and livestock sectors could increase input costs for farmers by 25 percent, according to a study sponsored by the soy checkoff.
Commodity groups present at this year’s Commodity Classic in Nashville agree on at least two things when it comes to the Farm Bill: new legislation must be completed this year and crop insurance must be affordable and properly funded. Their leaders gathered this afternoon to discuss “common ground
While crop insurance is the top Farm Bill priority for commodity groups at the 2012 Commodity Classic in Nashville, each has its own ideas on how to provide supporting risk management programs.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) announced a series of field hearings today on the 2012 Farm Bill to take place throughout March and April.
The U.S. needs to prepare to handle a variety of emerging market systems in developing economies with rapidly growing middle classes, said US Grains Council President Thomas Dorr today at the 2012 Commodity Classic in Nashville
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