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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, November 06, 2024
President of the World Food Prize, former Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia Kenneth Quinn, announced today the 2019 laureate recipient of the World Food Prize.
USDA’s top lawyers have confirmed that unplanted crop acreage will be ineligible for trade assistance payments under the Market Facilitation Program, a government official tells Agri-Pulse.
Many new genetically engineered crop traits would be exempt from regulation by the Agriculture Department under a sweeping rewrite of its rules for testing and assessing the products.
House Democrats are rolling out a series of fiscal 2020 spending bills that reject a range of White House spending cuts while challenging key Trump administration priorities and regulatory rollbacks at USDA, EPA and other agencies.
Mexican immigrants have gradually advanced from farmworker to become the most typical California strawberry farmer, but now they faces challenges over labor and affordable farmland.
House Democratic leaders look to finally push through on Monday a $19.1 billion disaster relief bill that a handful of conservative Republicans blocked from passing while most lawmakers were out of town for the 10-day Memorial Day recess.
USDA's Economic Research Service cited trade tensions, African Swine Fever, and weak commodity prices in trimming its export sales forecast for fiscal 2019 by $4.5 billion.
The reality of an African Swine Fever outbreak on the Chinese pork system is nothing new. What it does to the purchasing patterns of Chinese consumers might be.