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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, November 25, 2024
Expanding broadband internet to rural America won’t be easy or cheap. But if Microsoft is right, the rural/urban broadband gap could be eliminated within five years.
Vice President Mike Pence says American farmers and ranchers are responsible for everything from feeding the hungry to serving on the school board, and the United States should be grateful for their contributions.
Congress faces a Friday deadline to pass a $1.3 trillion government-wide spending plan and companies that buy commodities from farmers hope it will include a fix to the Section 199A tax deduction that has rattled the industry.
Rumors of potential action in the price of biofuel credits have Midwest politicians on edge, including a group of senators that have requested a meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss the issue.
A new bipartisan Senate proposal to reform USDA’s three largest conservation programs departs sharply from what is expected to be in the House farm bill while putting an emphasis on protecting water quality.
Efforts to exempt ranchers and concentrated animal feeding operations from air emissions reporting requirements took a step forward Wednesday with the introduction of a bill in the House that boasts 85 co-sponsors.
Once again, a budget deadline is approaching with serious implications for EPA's fee-based pesticide registration program, which has been kept alive with stopgap funding bills since the federal fiscal year ended Sept. 30.
House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway is delaying the planned debate of a new farm bill to negotiate changes in its nutrition title that could win some Democratic support.
The future of the Conservation Stewardship Program, created in 2002 to steer farm payments toward environmental benefits, is in doubt as Congress prepares to debate a new farm bill.
The European Union, Brazil, South Korea, Japan and other steel and aluminum exporters are scrambling to try and get exemptions to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, while much of the U.S. ag sector is worried they’ll be harmed by a backlash.
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