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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, November 28, 2024
U.S. soybean acreage has increased 18 percent – from 74 to 87 million - in the last twenty years. Soybean acreage grew at a faster rate than corn during the same period.
National Milk Producers Federation President and CEO Jim Mulhern will retire at the end of the year after a decade at the helm of NMPF and a total of 45 years in the ag industry.
Wine consumption is plateauing even as value-priced wines decline in sales amid a growing market for higher-priced, premium wines, says Chris Bitter, senior wine and grape analyst at Terrain, an agricultural analysis firm.
The House Agriculture Committee is set to hold its first hearing this year on farm bill nutrition programs, while a Senate Agriculture subcommittee this week will analyze the horticulture title.
There has been a steep drop-off in detections of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) across the country compared to last year's peaks, but USDA officials and poultry industry groups have no plans to relax precautions.
A bill that will suspend the debt ceiling, impose caps on federal spending and make major changes to work requirements under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program got final approval from the Senate late Thursday, clearing the measure for President Joe Biden's signature in time to avert a government default.
USDA has scheduled a pre-hearing information session for Friday, June 16, to get more input from the dairy industry on a National Milk Producers Federation petition to amend five provisions of the federal milk marketing order, as well as on a narrower request from the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA).
The GOP-controlled House overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation Wednesday evening to avert a first-ever government default, impose caps on federal spending and make the first major changes to SNAP work requirements in decades.
Leaders of the House and Senate Ag committees are in agreement that the debt limit has taken the issue of SNAP work requirements off the table for the farm bill debate.
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