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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, December 26, 2024
With House and Senate action on a USDA spending bill in limbo, many agricultural stakeholders will be focusing on trade issues this week, with Congressional hearings scheduled on reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank and on using trade rules to level the playing field for U.S. exporters
WASHINGTON, JUNE 16, 2014 – Agricultural stakeholders will be closely following a House Agriculture subcommittee hearing on Thursday as it reviews the “interpretive rule†included in the EPA proposal for redefining the waters of the U.S. that fall under its jurisdiction as specified by the Clean
The chairman of a House Ways and Means subcommittee on trade says the U.S. should complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership without Japan if the Asian nation insists on retaining tariffs on certain commodities.
U.S. supplies of unsold wheat at the end of May 2015 will total 574 million bushels, up 34 million bushels from the month ago estimate, as exports and use in food and animal f, eed decline, USDA said today in a monthly report.
President Obama today signed into law the Water Resources and Reform Development Act (WRRDA), which provides $12.3 billion to improve the nation’s ports and waterways and for flood control projects.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will have to provide a deposition in the defamation suit brought by former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod against the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled Monday.
Farmers and ranchers who wish to sign up for the USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) can do so starting on June 9. In a news release, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack also described incentives available to retiring farmers with acreage enrolled in CRP who transfer a portion of their land to
The Obama administration on Monday will unveil its long-awaited plan to cut carbon pollution from the nation’s coal-fired power plants, setting off what’s expected to be a wave of legal challenges and legislative counterattacks.
