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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, July 29, 2024
The battle over food assistance work requirements is picking up with a new Republican proposal from Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., who plans to drop a bill today to increase the age limit for SNAP work requirements.
An additional 1.5 million able-bodied, non-senior Americans would no longer qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program exemptions for work requirements under a bill planned to be introduced on Tuesday by Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack faces the Senate Agriculture Committee this week amid uncertainty about the path for a new farm bill and ongoing jousting between the Biden administration and Republicans over the economy and federal spending.
The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture says it wants to see a strong commodity title in the farm bill but is focusing its efforts on ag research, cybersecurity and trade.
President Joe Biden proposed a fiscal 2024 budget Thursday that would make permanent a lapsed USDA subsidy program for cover crops while also increasing the number of kids who get free school meals.
An Environmental Protection Agency official says the agency is exploring a variety of solutions that would allow E15 sales to take place in 2023 while also advancing a petition to legalize the sales in the Midwest the following year.
The House Agriculture Committee formally appealed Thursday for "adequate resources" in the next farm bill to compensate for what the panel says is the “ineffectiveness” of existing commodity programs.