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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, November 29, 2024
The first thing U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack did after the U.S. lost its second USMCA dairy battle with Canada was vow to keep on fighting – reminiscent of statements released by U.S. lawmakers and U.S. dairy groups, but that fight may be at an end after two exhaustive legal fights that both ended in a decision by a three-member dispute panel.
More than 60 Republican lawmakers have complained to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack about the timing of assistance from – and the methodology for – the 2022 Emergency Relief Program.
The government could save taxpayers “hundreds of millions per year” by reducing crop insurance companies’ rate of return on the program in line with market conditions, according to the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress.
The House is scheduled to take up a bipartisan bill today that’s aimed at fostering collaboration between USDA and the Energy Department on issues critical to agriculture.
The House takes up a bill aimed at boosting agriculture and energy research even as Congress lumbers toward the upcoming holiday break in a continued stalemate over spending for Ukraine and Israel, border security and fiscal 2024 appropriations.
One of the two Western members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, New Mexico Democrat Ben Ray Luján, took his time on Agri-Pulse Newsmakers to stump for language in the farm bill that would aid producers in drought-prone areas.
The House is expected to vote today on whether to expel New York Republican George Santos following an Ethics Committee report released in November. It will take a two-thirds majority of the House to remove Santos.
Nominees for top posts at USDA and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission sailed through their hearing before the Senate Agriculture Committee, which is expected to advance their nominations next week.
USDA will award the first tranche of funding under its new $1.2 billion Regional Agricultural Promotion Program, or RAPP, in 2024 with $300 million from the Commodity Credit Corporation.
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