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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, November 29, 2024
Iowa farmers on Thursday urged members of Congress to be cautious in seeking to curb China's theft of U.S. intellectual property and unfair trade tactics, noting the nation's importance as a consumer of soybeans and other commodities.
Haiti is the largest foreign market for U.S. milled long grain rice and the escalation of gang violence there is threatening the ability of the U.S. to export grain to the country.
Lawmakers continue to struggle with what to do about commodity programs in a new farm bill, including how to pay for increases in reference prices. One idea is to require farmers to update their base acreage to reflect current plantings.
People in some of the poorest and hungriest nations in the world may be the hardest hit by India’s decision last month to ban exports of long grain, non-basmati rice – a move that’s already pushing global prices higher and forcing import-dependent countries to scramble to find supplies, according to analysts and trade data.
Farm Credit lenders are asking Congress in the upcoming farm bill to expand their authority to rural community facilities and fisheries projects, but some community bankers are worried the changes will siphon away their business.
As Congress prepares to write a new farm bill, animal welfare advocates are preparing to safeguard California’s Proposition 12 and similar laws regulating agricultural practices while also pushing to tighten standards for dog breeders, ban the export of horses for slaughter, and eliminate the last vestiges of animal fighting and dog racing in the United States.
The House and the Senate are different, its members like to say. Perhaps nowhere is that more evident this year than the spending bills that are advancing in both chambers.
A bipartisan quintet of House Ag Committee members visited Maine Monday for a listening session on the next farm bill, and many local speakers used the event to call for improved crop insurance in the region.
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