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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and House Agriculture Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., held separate briefings for members in an attempt to bring them up to date on the status of deliberations to cut $23 billion out of farm bill spending over the next decade.
Washington, D.C. – A provision allowing for the restoration of USDA-sponsored inspections of horse processing facilities is included in the conference report for the Appropriations bill passed in the House of Representatives tonight. The bill sets the 2012 budgets for multiple departments, includin
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17- “The Economics of Farm Animal Happiness†determined that farm animal welfare is an increasingly important topic to agricultural producers and that economists have an important role to play in shaping the debate.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today formally unveiled their joint proposal to set stronger fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas pollution standards for model year 2017-2025 passenger cars and light trucks.
U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) called on the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the exchanges, and the bankruptcy trustee to work together to release frozen MF Global margin account funds to customers as soon as possible.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 – Maplight, a research organization focused on how money influences politics, released its analysis of contributions connected to the Agribusiness sector to members of the House and Senate agriculture committees.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 - The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) today determined that revoking the existing antidumping duty orders on solid urea from Russia and Ukraine would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15- A group of policy leaders, including former executive director of the UN World Food Program, Catherine Bertini, and former secretary of Agriculture, Dan Glickman, are urging Congress to sustain funding levels for agricultural development in developing nations like those in Afr
With just 10 days left to produce a $1.2 trillion package aimed at deficit reduction, the 12 members of the Joint Deficit Reduction Committee are providing only small hints that they may be moving closer to their end game.
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