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Daybreak May 5: Key Senate Rs cool to Ukraine request

05/05/22 10:00 AM By Philip Brasher, Garrett Downs, and Bill Tomson

President Biden’s $500 million plan to boost agricultural production isn’t going down well with two key Senate Republicans on ag policy

White House sets anti-hunger conference for September

05/04/22 8:01 AM By Philip Brasher

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.

How Cory Booker wants to reshape the farm bill

05/04/22 6:46 AM By Garrett Downs

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.

Global crisis sparks debate over food aid need, shipping costs

05/04/22 6:40 AM By Philip Brasher

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.

Proposed cutback on diuron use could leave some growers scrambling

05/04/22 6:30 AM By Steve Davies

Weed scientists say farmers will lose a valuable herbicide, if EPA follows through on a proposal to prohibit the use of diuron on food and feed crops.

A vegetable oil crisis in the making around the world

05/04/22 6:20 AM By Bill Tomson

When the Russian military invasion cut off Ukraine’s ability to export sunflower oil and wheat, it helped push “a cascading food crisis around the world,” according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Agency for U.S. Agency for International Development. Now Indonesia, which last week banned the export of palm oil, is exacerbating the conditions that are driving global shortages and price spikes of vegetable oil.

Senate Ag launches farm bill hearings

04/29/22 3:01 PM By Philip Brasher

Leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee heard from Michigan producers who represent a broad range of commodities, scale and farming practices as the panel formally started hearings on the next farm bill.

House hearing shows partisan divide over SNAP

04/28/22 6:05 PM By Garrett Downs

House Republicans and Democrats on Thursday sparred over USDA nutrition programs at a hearing on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, highlighting partisan divides over funding for food assistance in the 2023 farm bill.

FDA chief says US food is safe but agrees more action is needed

04/28/22 2:47 PM By Steve Davies

The food supply in the United States is “as safe as it’s ever been,” Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf told Senate appropriators Thursday when questioned about the agency’s lack of action on food safety issues.

Biden proposes $500M in emergency incentives to boost US crop production

Funding intended to relieve war-driven shortfalls

04/28/22 10:30 AM By Philip Brasher

President Joe Biden's $33 billion supplemental funding request for the war in Ukraine includes $500 million to encourage U.S. farmers to increase production of crops such as soybeans and wheat.

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11.22.2024

Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Nov. 22, 2024: Sen. Jerry Moran on disaster aid, farm bill

The race is on to pass a farm bill extension before the end of the year after Senate Ag Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow released her farm bill text this week and it was rejected by Republicans. We asked Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., about the future of the farm bill and prospects for a package of market loss relief and disaster aid in December.

Then, NASDA’s RJ Karney and NFU’s Aaron Shier discuss what agriculture can expect from the Trump administration.

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