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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Call it a dry run, and a very successful one: House Agriculture Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., got to warm up for the coming farm bill debate this week by working to bury some key amendments to the fiscal 2024 Agriculture spending bill.
The Agriculture Department is working to update its system for tracking agricultural land leases and purchases to appease lawmaker demands, but staffing and funding limitations have limited the agency to "low-cost" options, a department official told the Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday.
With a government shutdown looming on Sunday, the House plowed ahead with debating additional cuts to USDA and farm bill programs as part of a fiscal 2024 spending bill that has no chance of becoming law.
Everyone agrees it’s a mess and very few admit they actually want to see it happen, but it looks like Government Shutdown 2023 is set to become the latest example of the world’s largest economy grinding to a halt – or at least the federal government portion of it.
American agribusiness leaders and government officials are in Santiago, Chile, this week trying to drum up business for U.S. producers, and several sectors are poised to take advantage.
Challenges facing the ag sector such as climate change, rural flight and shifting economics also bring new opportunities to find solutions that benefit those throughout the entire protein supply chain, Cargill Protein North America President Hans Kabat said at Agri-Pulse’s Ag Outlook Forum in Kansas City on Monday.
The Department of Agriculture has agreed to use Commodity Credit Corporation funds to spend about $1.4 billion on a program to help farm groups market their commodities overseas and about $1.1 billion to pay for commodity-based international food aid, according to sources.
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