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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, November 29, 2024
House Ag Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson and his counterpart on House Natural Resources, Bruce Westerman, headlined an ag-focused fundraiser for Donald Trump at the Capitol Hill Club Monday evening.
Broiler chicken growers would be guaranteed a base price for their birds under a proposed rule from the Agriculture Department aimed at reforming the poultry tournament system.
Lawmakers are back in Washington this week as the legislative calendar winds down ahead of this summer’s political conventions and the fall campaigns, and the House is going to use the time between now and the Republican convention in mid-July to move its fiscal 2025 spending bills.
The Food and Drug Administration’s reorganization to create a unified Human Food Program has received approval from the Department of Health and Human Services and will go into effect Oct. 1.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s expanded dollar-for-dollar match program is poised to help more California families buy fluid milk products.
The level of farmworker wages continues to vex the ag industry and farmworker representatives, who say the way they are calculated results in wages being either too low or too high.
Trade with Mexico, Korea, Central America and Colombia is propelling new growth in U.S. pork exports, says U.S. Meat Export Federation President Dan Halstrom
Republicans pushed their $1.5 trillion farm bill through the House Agriculture Committee early Friday with the help of four critical Democratic votes, giving the massive legislation some momentum as it heads to an uncertain future in the full House.
While there are provisions to expand SNAP eligibility in the House Agriculture Committee's draft farm bill, anti-hunger say the legislation could lead to limits on food choices and put a focus on improving nutrition over addressing hunger.
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