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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, November 22, 2024
A key scheme involved in the bribery case against Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., angered the Agriculture Department but resulted in associates of the couple getting a lucrative monopoly on halal certification for U.S. beef exports to Egypt.
House Republicans remain unable to agree on a continuing resolution to keep the government funded in October. Meanwhile, senators left town Thursday still unable to get agreement on bringing up a three-bill spending package that includes its version of the USDA-FDA bill.
The Senate Agriculture Committee is wading into the controversy around foreign ownership of U.S. cropland. A long-expected hearing on the issue is scheduled for next Wednesday.
The U.S. pork industry wants to see a return of the Generalized System of Preferences trade program, which expired in 2020, seeing it as key to gaining new access to markets in countries like Thailand and the Philippines.
Amid the budget turmoil on Capitol Hill, the House Budget Committee is set to consider a partisan, fiscal 2023 budget resolution today, a little more than a week before the end of the fiscal year.
USDA’s plan to spend $1.4 billion to pay for a new export promotion program will provide the increase in market development funding that commodity groups have been trying to get through the farm bill, says Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., says he still intends to get a farm bill through the House this year, despite the ongoing turmoil in the chamber.
The Department of Agriculture has agreed to use Commodity Credit Corporation funds to spend about $1.4 billion on a program to help farm groups market their commodities overseas and about $1.1 billion to pay for commodity-based international food aid, according to sources.
Lawmakers are inching ever closer to a government shutdown. It’s true that Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year, is still two weeks away, but House conservatives continue to play hardball with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
