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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, September 01, 2024
Dairy Farmers of America, the largest milk marketing cooperative, made the first purchase of verified carbon credits within the livestock value chain from one of its Texas dairy farmer owners and represents the first transaction of the carbon insetting marketplace.
Through its first three years, the Biden administration has been moving – quickly in some cases, more slowly in others – to implement its regulatory agenda, the success of which will depend in large part on what happens in 2024.
Food prices are on track to return to normal levels this year, as consumers can expect to see softened food-at-home costs after years of high inflation pushing prices up, economists project.
Agricultural groups want the U.S. Supreme Court to decide on whether the executive branch can supersede land use laws through the growing use of the Antiquities Act of 1906 to establish huge acre tracts of national monuments.
Soybean growers in Brazil already have lower production costs than their U.S. counterparts, and Brazil is making some headway in cutting its inland transportation expenses as well, according to a new study by USDA’s Economic Research Service.
FDA's newly appointed deputy commissioner for human foods says a proposed reorganization of the agency should correct longstanding structural flaws exposed by last year's infant formula crisis.
Farm groups and ag lawmakers are growing increasingly frustrated by the closure of two rail crossings at the U.S-Mexico border and say they haven't received any word of when the situation will be resolved.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is asking USDA to give poultry processors six more months to implement the department’s new regulations on producer contracts, but USDA says the requirements are "simple" and that companies don't need additional time.