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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, September 15, 2024
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf faces lawmakers this week amid nationwide alarm over the shortage of infant formula and continued questions about the agency’s oversight of food and agriculture.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack wraps up a trip to Europe where he's been in talks over the global food crisis and the war in Ukraine.
Farmers are struggling this spring with sky-high production costs, but the bigger concern is whether there will be enough fertilizer and other inputs to go around for next season
The Agriculture Department estimates U.S. winter wheat production will drop 8% this year due to a drought gripping the Plains and that planting delays are likely to cut the corn harvest.
Supermarket prices jumped another 1% in April, led by sharply higher costs for chicken, dairy products and eggs, and are up 10.8% over the past year, according to the latest Consumer Price Index.
President Joe Biden is taking new steps to address spikes in food prices and ag inputs after lawmakers declined to include his proposed crop incentives in a $40 billion supplemental spending bill for the war in Ukraine.
The Biden administration is working on new ideas to increase crop production this year, including getting Congress to eliminate the penalty for planting after a prevent-plant insurance claim, says Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.