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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Members of the Senate will begin returning to Capitol Hill for hearings this week after the August recess, while Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack travels to Cornell University for an agriculture seminar.
Fresh from visiting members of the House and Senate Ag Committee and their staffs, former House Ag Committee Chairman Collin Peterson says everyone seems to be working very well together, drafting each title, working through the issues “and that’s a good thing. The non-controversial stuff is well in hand.”
The Agriculture Department expects net farm income to decline in 2023 amid falling agriculture commodity revenues, higher production expenses and a decline in direct payments from the government.
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says the Environmental Protection Agency’s work to redefine what constitutes a “water of the U.S.” should make the regulation easier to understand in farm country, an opinion that runs contrary to the opinion of many ag groups.
James “Jim” Jones has been selected by the Food and Drug Administration to serve as the first deputy commissioner for human foods, giving him a chance to direct and oversee reorganization efforts at the agency.
The Food Safety Modernization Act imposed new regulations on imported fruits and vegetables but appears to have had little impact on Mexican exports to the United States, according to an analysis by USDA’s Economic Research Service.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai will be arriving in New Delhi Saturday for bilateral talks with Indian trade officials as the government there continues its controversial ban on rice exports.
Drought, low prices, supply chain disruptions have been plaguing California’s walnut farmers for years and a heat wave during last year’s harvest scorched the state’s groves, but ideal weather so far this year has the sector optimistic that growers are going to see their fortunes change.
John Talbot, CEO of the California Milk Advisory Board, and Fred Schonenberg, founder of VentureFuel, an innovation advisory firm, happened to be sitting next to each other at a conference when they hatched the idea of creating a "Shark Tank" program to spur the development of new products made from California milk. The Real California Milk Excelerator program was born.
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