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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, September 27, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission and 10 state attorneys general have sued Syngenta Crop Protection and Corteva for paying distributors to block competitors from selling "cheaper generic products" to farmers.
Farm Service Agency Administrator Zach Ducheneaux told lawmakers Thursday that he would give "due consideration" to an Equity Commission recommendation to study replacing FSA's county committee system, but he said the local panels are “integral” to the agency’s delivery of programs.
The White House hunger and nutrition conference is in the books. Now, the question is how much of the White House food strategy will be put into practice - and what it will mean for the ag and food sectors.
Some leading lawmakers and one of the top CEOs in ag industry will have prominent places today at the historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health.
Congressional unease over foreign investment in the U.S. agriculture sector has spawned a heap of proposals meant to give agricultural acquisitions additional scrutiny in reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
The Biden administration is being pushed to consider dismantling the county committee system that USDA has long relied on to manage farm programs at the local level.
It’s been two weeks since the Senate Finance Committee unanimously voted to approve Doug McKalip to be the chief agricultural negotiator for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
The Agriculture Department’s tracking of foreign land ownership relies heavily on investors to voluntarily report acquisitions, but enforcement cases have dropped dramatically even as the number of transactions has surged over the past decade, according to an analysis of USDA data.