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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, November 29, 2024
The Trump administration seeks to calm farmers’ fears about the escalating trade dispute with China, even as corn and soybean growers hope the crisis will at least end the White House’s consideration of intervening in the biofuel credit market.
California growers should start to look seriously at how to adapt to the changing climate, which could shrink the land available for many of the state's most popular crops, a new study has found.
USDA officials are working under increasing pressure to devise programs to help compensate farmers for expected losses due to new Chinese tariffs, but the complexity of the task is daunting, say government officials.
A Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Jim McGovern, drew cheers at a meeting of anti-hunger activists in February when he called for stopping the farm bill if it’s unfair to nutrition assistance programs.
Some invasive species usually try and settle down, start a large family and stake a claim on some of California's endless buffet of agricultural crops, becoming the bane of farmers and researchers.
USDA today published in the Federal Register a final decision to establish an Federal Milk Marketing Order that would cover the entire Golden State. Before it goes into effect, however, the plan must be approved by producers.
U.S. farmers will plant more soybeans than corn this year – for the first time since 1983 – but acreage for both crops will be smaller than in 2017, according to USDA’s Prospective Plantings report.
The Trump administration wants to push food companies to use new health claims and labeling language to improve Americans' diets and also is moving ahead with an Obama-era initiative to reduce sodium consumption.
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