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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
WASHINGTON, Mar. 8, 2017 - There’s a major new farm bill proposal on the table. The National Milk Producers Federation is recommending a series of changes to the Margin Protection Program to ensure dairy producers have a better shot at getting payments under the plan.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 7, 2017 - Anti-hunger activists target next farm bill * USDA says it has contained bird flu outbreak * Spain could profit from U.S. bird flu
WASHINGTON, March 6, 2017 – South Korea, a major poultry and egg importer, has closed its market to the U.S. in the wake of a new detection of highly pathogenic bird flu at a Tennessee broiler breeding operation, according to U.S. and Korean officials.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 8, 2017 - Does subsidizing farmers lower food costs? Modern farm programs aren’t supposed to affect farmers’ production decisions, and it’s been hard for policy makers to argue that farm programs save consumers money.
WASHINGTON, March 5, 2017 – The first 2017 detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a commercial U.S. flock has been confirmed in Tennessee.
WASHINGTON, March 5, 2017 - The Senate is taking the final congressional step this week to kill the Obama administration’s overhaul of the way the Bureau of Land Management makes land-use decisions.
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2017 – American agriculture lost one of its staunchest advocates and most gifted leaders this morning with the passing of former Secretary of Agriculture Clayton Yeutter, age 86, after a four-year battle with metastatic colon cancer.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 3, 2017 - Talk is picking up on Capitol Hill about possible long-term revisions to the 10-year-old Renewable Fuel Standard, which mandates the usage of corn ethanol and other biofuels.
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