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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the United States isn’t being tough enough when it comes to China. While President Joe Biden has maintained the Trump administration’s tariffs on China, Pompeo says more has to be done to curb China’s unfair trade practices and theft of intellectual property.
FAO's gauge of global food prices fell for the fifth consecutive month in August, led by continued softening in wheat markets, but remained 7.9% above its level a year ago.
The Agriculture Department is significantly increasing its farm earnings forecast for 2022, estimating that net cash farm income will reach its highest level in a decade due to the booming prices for crops and animal products.
The top Republican on the House Ag Committee is making clear he wants nothing to do with some proposals by fellow conservatives to slash farm bill programs.
Freezing the wage rate paid to farmworkers in the U.S. under the H-2A program “could encourage a faster expansion” of the program and may reduce the wages of the U.S. domestic workers who account for 90% of average employment on U.S. crop farms, the Economic Research Service said in a report released Tuesday.
House Democrats are more hopeful they can cut their losses in November after some recent special election showings, but the battle for control of the chamber still depends significantly on a series of races involving members of the House Agriculture Committee.
The California Air Resource Board’s decision to ban the sale of new gas-powered passenger vehicles by 2035 is likely to have an impact well beyond that state’s borders.
USDA is going to use the upcoming Census of Agriculture to find out where farmers are using precision agriculture methods and to identify parts of the country where there are gaps in high-speed internet access.
Seven western agricultural groups are pressing the Bureau of Reclamation to quickly determine how it plans to spend $4 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funding to incentivize water conservation in drought-stricken areas.
Drought in the American West, Southwest and Central Plains hit farmers and ranchers hard last year, buta new survey from the American Farm Bureau Federationshows the situation has worsened this year as more producers are abandoning scorched crops, destroying orchard trees and paying for livestock feed.