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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, November 22, 2024
President Joe Biden and Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack are stopping at a Minnesota farm today to announce $5 billion in funding for projects across rural America.
American Egg Board President Emily Metz is on a mission to expand the reach of U.S. farmers and processors across the globe and make international trade do for her industry what it’s done for dairy and pork – boost sales and profits.
The Biden administration is voicing dissatisfaction with two House spending bills teed up for action this week, criticizing drastic budget cuts and legislative riders targeting the administration’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
President Joe Biden and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack are heading to Minnesota Wednesday to kick off a two-week, nationwide effort to showcase how “Bidenomics” is helping rural America through investments in farming, ag production and rural communities, according to the White House.
The top Republican on the Senate Ag Committee, John Boozman, says he doesn’t know whether the extra money Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow has identified for the next farm bill will be enough to bolster commodity programs and crop insurance.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow says in an exclusive interview with Agri-Pulse that she expects to have about $4 billion to $5 billion in new funding available for the next farm bill.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is following the lead of some of the nation's most influential farm groups, which banded together earlier this month to ask the Commerce Department to reduce or eliminate the duty on key imports of phosphate fertilizers from Morocco.
China’s approval of a whopping 51 new genetically modified varieties of corn and soybeans for planting on Chinese fields is a major development in the country’s changing stance on its acceptance of the technology.
U.S. farm groups were quick to cheer Tuesday's announcement of a $1.3 billion investment in a new Regional Agricultural Promotion Program after waiting for weeks for the USDA to confirm its plans to fund a new program to help promote ag exports.