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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, September 14, 2024
For nearly four decades, the federal government has protected environmentally sensitive farmland through a simple bargain with farmers known as “conservation compliance.” If they want to receive farm program benefits, growers can’t plow up wetlands, and they must take steps to protect highly erodible acreage.
The federal agencies that buy food for distribution try to buy products locally but don’t have a comprehensive way of tracking the source of products, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.
The top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, Maxine Waters of California, and four senior Senate Democrats are urging an appeals court to preserve a new law that requires small businesses, including farms, to disclose their ownership to the federal government.
President Biden and members of his cabinet, including Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, are fanning out across the country to promote the administration’s environmental record.
The top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee on Friday accused the panel’s majority Republicans of “abandoning bipartisanship” to push through a farm bill next month that will include restrictions on nutrition assistance and the Commodity Credit Corporation that are unacceptable to Democrats.
EPA is announcing today that it’s issuing a waiver to allow the use of E15 nationwide again this summer, sources tell Agri-Pulse. The agency had previously issued such waivers for 2022 and 2023.
The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to use USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation spending authority to provide $1 billion in additional food assistance overseas, a move requested by leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee last year.