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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
USDA is finalizing a study of retail food pricing even as Vice President Kamala Harris threatens to crack down on the industry for alleged price gouging.
The timeline for an anticipated rule requiring nutrition labels on the front of food packages has shifted to October as the Food and Drug Administration continues to analyze possible routes to take.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Minnesota Democrat in line to take over as chair or ranking member of the Senate Ag Committee next year, insists it’s still possible to pass a new farm bill in the lame duck session at the end of the year.
Well before he was the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Tim Walz sat down with Agri-Pulse to talk about his district, the virtues of bipartisanship in crafting a farm bill, and the U.S. relationship with China.
An Agri-Pulse analysis of projects that account for the bulk of spending under the Biden administration’s Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities initiative shows it heavily relies on a relatively small number of practices. And most of the projects are paying farmers according to the practices they implement rather than for actual emission reductions.
USDA is making available a fresh round of funding through the Regional Agricultural Promotion Program, a $1.2 billion effort funded from the department’s Commodity Credit Corporation.
The Agriculture Department is launching a $400 million effort with 18 irrigation districts to pay Western farmers to cut back on water use, so long as they promise to keep farming.
A bipartisan group of senators is pushing the Treasury Department to restrict the new 45Z clean fuels tax credit to domestically sourced feedstocks. That would prevent imports of used cooking oil from qualifying for the tax subsidy.