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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, September 30, 2024
The Senate will vote this week on a new commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration and will likely extend Friday’s deadline for keeping the government funded, clearing the way for negotiators to finalize a government-wide, fiscal 2022 spending bill.
A coalition of farm groups are suing to block the Environmental Protection Agency from prohibiting the use of chlorpyrifos on food crops, starting Feb. 28.
Supermarket prices shot up a full 1% in January, despite a decline in the cost of beef and pork, and are up 7.4% over the past year as inflation shows little sign of abating.
The Agriculture Department is shifting the way it promotes the Conservation Reserve Program, placing greater emphasis on allowing farmers to use enrolled land for haying and grazing, according to recent comments by Farm Service Agency Administrator Zach Ducheneaux.
Tyson Foods, one of the country’s largest meat companies, is reporting net earnings per share of $2.87 for the latest quarter, up 48% for the same period a year earlier.
Growers of the nation’s broiler chickens say there should be plenty of wings and dummies available for hungry football fans watching Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup.
The Biden administration is launching the application process for a $1 billion program that will test ways farms of all sizes can profit from the low-carbon commodities they produce through practices that cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Minority farmers and producers considered to be historically underserved by federal programs, including beginning farmers, received less than 4% of the payments provided by the Trump administration’s Market Facilitation Program, according to the Government Accountability Office.