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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, October 17, 2024
It’s a big week around the nation’s capital with hearings scheduled examining several issues important to agriculture, including rail service delays and a proposal to require companies to track the greenhouse gas emissions in their supply chains.
The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, heads to Capitol Hill this week to face lawmakers who are sharply divided over the agency’s plan to require corporations to track and disclose greenhouse gas emissions in their supply chains.
Lawmakers on both sides of Capitol Hill have spent the past couple of years working to rein in the market power of the four largest beef packers. But time may well have run out on two major reform bills.
The Agriculture Department failed to adequately guard against fraudulent claims by producers for payments under the $31 billion Coronavirus Food Assistance Program that the Trump administration launched in 2020, the Government Accountability Office says.
In a potential new milestone in agricultural biotechnology, a gene-edited tomato that’s high in antioxidants believed to fight cancer and heart disease, has cleared a key hurdle.
Food insecurity in America held relatively steady overall in 2021 at 10.2%, but there was some improvement among households with children, the Agriculture Department says.
Farmers’ outlook improved last month despite linger concerns about high input prices and prospects for weaker prices in 2023, according to the monthly Purdue-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer.
Gene-edited fruits, vegetables and other specialty crops are likely to hit the market in increasing numbers over the next five years to meet consumer demand for improved traits, according to a report by Rabobank.