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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, September 28, 2024
A group of eleven senators from both parties are calling for additional funding to fight the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza, which has so far resulted in the deaths of more than 37.5 million birds across 34 states.
Scientists with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and USDA's Agricultural Research Service have developed seven new types of edamame soybeans that are resistant to diseases and insects.
Senators are trying to find an agreement on a new Ukraine supplemental spending bill by the end of this week, while Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and other cabinet members head to Capitol Hill for questioning about their spending plans.
FAO's measure of global food commodity prices fell slightly in April, driven by an easing of corn and vegetable oil prices, after jumping 13% the month before following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
NASA scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig, a renowned climatologist and an agronomist who founded a global project for modeling the impact of climate change on the food supply, was announced Thursday as the 2022 World Food Prize laureate.
The White House on Wednesday announced plans to hold the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health in September, the first such meeting in 53 years.
Cory Booker is on a mission to fix what he calls the “broken American food system.” As one of the newest members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, the New Jersey Democrat and vegan is positioned to shape the next farm bill.
Key senators are seeking to waive rules that sharply increase the cost of shipping U.S. food assistance overseas at the same time anti-hunger groups are set to call for far more aid than the Biden administration has requested so far to address the developing global food crisis.