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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, January 09, 2025
CALIFORNIA, August 2, 2017 - Three California farm groups are taking a new tack in challenging Fish and Wildlife Service critical habitat designations for two frogs and a toad.
WASHINGTON, August 2, 2017 - USDA’s Risk Management Agency will make crop insurance available to beekeepers in 19 additional states, meaning it will now be available in all contiguous 48 states.
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2017 – Mexico may talk about getting its grains from countries other than the United States, but Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said today that he doesn’t think the country is serious.
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2017 - The Trump administrations effort to write new "waters of the U.S." regulations takes a big step forward Thursday with publication of a proposed rule to withdraw the Obama administration's 2015 rule.
WASHINGTON, July 26, 207 - With rural hospitals at risk of closure and healthcare providers increasingly abandoning sparsely populated areas, residents in vast swaths of the country often must drive for hours and take time off from work to see a doctor or medical specialist.
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2017 - For those wondering why the proposal to withdraw the WOTUS rule, which was announced June 27, has not appeared officially in the Federal Register, here’s your answer: Formatting.
WASHINGTON, July 20, 2017 - Sen. Debbie Stabenow, the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, is questioning whether Sam Clovis, whom President Trump plans to nominate as USDA's Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics (REE), has the right resume for the job.
WASHINGTON, July 19, 2017 - Bills to delist gray wolves in the Great Lakes region, give states a larger role in listing imperiled species and cap attorney fees awarded to Endangered Species Act litigants were the subjects of debate at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing today.
WASHINGTON, July 19, 2017 - Senate agricultural appropriators will seek to reinstate the under secretary for rural development position eliminated by USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue.
WASHINGTON, July 19, 2017 - Farmers are worried that the data they gather when they use precision agriculture on their land will be used to make a profit – but not by them.
