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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, November 25, 2024
U.S. rice millers and farmers are counting on Kenya’s United Nations-sanctioned plan to lead an international force to bring stability to Haiti – the largest foreign market for U.S. milled rice.
Rep. Jim Jordan, one of two candidates to become House speaker, said Sunday the new leader’s first order of business is to ensure Israel gets the U.S. support it needs, and then lawmakers must deal with the looming expiration of the stopgap spending bill that’s keeping the government open.
Eleven farm-state Republican lawmakers from the Senate and House are asking the Commerce Department to reverse a preliminary decision that would significantly raise the countervailing duty on Russian phosphate fertilizer.
The chaos among House Republicans isn’t the only hurdle facing a new farm bill. Senate Republican Whip John Thune, R-S.D., says the Senate Ag Committee remains divided over key issues, including what to do about the major commodity programs.
Volatile commodity markets are allowing international agricultural trading companies to rake in big profits in shadowy financial markets even as food insecurity increases in some of the most vulnerable regions of the globe, says a new analysis from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development that calls for regulations to rein in the excesses.
Two leading Republicans have jumped into the race for House speaker, Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the current House majority leader, and Jim Jordan of Ohio, the House Judiciary Committee chairman.
Even as the airlines struggle to figure out how to pay for the high cost of reducing their carbon footprint, there is significant uncertainty about the political future of fledgling tax incentives that are supposed to reduce the high cost of producing sustainable aviation fuel.
The indictments of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez and Wael Hana are raising concern over an arrangement that gives control over millions of dollars in U.S. beef and poultry trade to one entity at the heart of the scandal.
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