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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, September 14, 2024
A bipartisan group of senators is announcing a proposal today to expand Agriculture Department research on feed additives for reducing methane emissions from cattle.
The biofuel industry is eagerly awaiting the Biden administration’s update of a model that will be used to measure the carbon intensity of sustainable aviation feedstocks and determine their eligibility for a valuable new tax incentives. But industry officials caution that the update is only one in several policy actions that will be needed to get SAF production off the ground.
The Port of Baltimore, a significant shipping point for U.S. sugar imports, suspended traffic Tuesday after a container ship slammed into and collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge, shutting the main channel leading into the Chesapeake Bay.
The meat and dairy industries are trying to assure the public beef and milk is safe, despite the finding of dairy cattle infected with avian flu in at least two states.
Federal and state officials are investigating illnesses in dairy herds in Texas, Kansas and New Mexico after some older cows tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is under fire again from House Republicans over the Commodity Credit Corporation, this time both for suggesting the CCC could be used to supplement farm bill funding but also for refusing to use it to make disaster relief payments to some California producers.
Democrats wasted no time at a China-focused hearing Wednesday challenging South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem over former President Donald Trump’s talk of slapping huge new tariffs on the No. 1 market for U.S. ag products.
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected today to release new tailpipe emission standards that the ethanol industry and corn growers have been trying to derail.