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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, August 26, 2024
The cost of eating at home fell 0.2% in April after supermarket prices were flat for two straight months, helping offset continued inflation in housing and energy costs.
Ongoing partisan battles over nutrition assistance and Inflation Reduction Act funding have received all the attention but there are plenty of other policy disagreements in the approaches that leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture committees are taking on a new farm bill.
In November 2022, the Food and Drug Administration finalized a rule under the Food Safety Modernization Act that requires companies to keep additional records for some foods to better trace foodborne illness outbreaks.
Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee are proposing to raise Price Loss Coverage reference prices by 10% to 20% depending on the commodity, while also providing increased income protection to growers under the Agriculture Risk Coverage program and crop insurance, according to a section-by-section summary released Friday.
The Agriculture Department is making a wide range of resources available to dairy farmers whose herds are affected by avian flu, including reimbursing them for the cost of personal protective equipment and development of biosecurity plans, in part to gather more information about farmworker health.
The avian flu outbreak has been “all-consuming” for the Food and Drug Administration, which is concerned about the possibility that the virus could mutate and spread to humans, says Jim Jones, the agency's deputy commissioner for human foods.
California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom will join Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and California Ag Secretary Karen Ross in Los Angeles today to discuss the state’s policy on free school meals.
Consumer and produce advocacy groups are celebrating the finalization of a highly anticipated rule updating how farms assess pre-harvest water quality, but remain skeptical about implementation measures.