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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, July 15, 2024
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2017 – Members of President Trump’s Cabinet and senior officials from the White House and throughout the federal government today pledged to forge agreement on ways to boost the farm economy and address economic and social challenges across rural America.
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2017 - House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway was among the GOP lawmakers who found themselves targeted by a shooter during a routine practice for the annual congressional baseball game. A Tyson Foods lobbyist was wounded in the incident.
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2017 - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue doesn’t expect a deputy secretary or undersecretaries to be in place at the Agriculture Department before September.
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2017 - Leaders of the conservative House Freedom Caucus (HFC) are proposing to slash the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to help pay for tax cuts...
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2017 - President Trump has been in office for nearly five months, and farmers are still waiting for his administration to take steps to address the labor shortage that many producers say continues to plague the sector.
WASHINGTON, June 12, 2017 - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has selected the chief Republican counsel for the Senate Agriculture Committee, Anne Hazlett, to be his new assistant to the secretary for rural development.
WASHINGTON, June 11, 2017 - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue heads back to Capitol Hill this week, and he’s likely to face renewed challenges on the president’s budget and proposals to cut and reorganize rural development programs.
WASHINGTON, June 7, 2017 - Corn, soybean, wheat and rice growers in much of the country now have a new option for crop insurance, a Margin Protection (MP) product ...
WASHINGTON, June 4, 2017 - With Congress returning from a week-long recess, lawmakers this week will push back on President Trump’s proposals to gut international food aid programs.