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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, November 29, 2024
A South Dakota lawmaker is calling on Congress to move forward with plans to add more transparency to cattle markets to help address “underlying frailties within the marketplace” even though current prices for market cattle are reaching record prices.
House Republican leaders gave up trying to pass the fiscal 2024 Agriculture funding bill ahead of the August recess after they were unable to satisfy demands from a band of hard-line conservatives who are seeking deeper cuts in spending.
A House bill introduced Thursday would address one of the top farm bill goals for specialty crop growers by setting up a grant program to ease the cost of adopting automation in their operations.
House Republican leaders continued to struggle Wednesday to get the party support they need to bring up the fiscal 2024 spending bill for USDA and FDA.
Major commodity programs are mounting a defense of federal checkoff programs, which are being targeted by a proposed amendment to USDA’s fiscal 2024 appropriations bill.
Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee are eying big changes to the Conservation Reserve Program in the upcoming farm bill, though many influential voices question whether the efforts will gain much steam.
Overall, American agricultural exports have recovered from the trade war with China that began five years ago, but many specialty crops still suffer from Chinese retaliatory tariffs.
The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to bar investors from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea from buying U.S. farmland and require the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to review land purchases by investors from any other foreign country totaling more than $5 million or 320 acres.
The House Rules Committee has scheduled a meeting for Wednesday to decide which proposed amendments to the fiscal 2024 Agriculture spending will get debated on the House floor.
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