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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, January 09, 2025
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2017 - The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association wants to make sure congressional lawmakers and the White House know that infrastructure isn’t just roads and bridges. It also includes broadband.
The latest numbers from USDA Rural Development show the Rural Energy for America Program... has awarded nearly $3 billion in grants and loan guarantees since it was reauthorized and given substantial funding in the 2008 farm bill.
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2017 - Clean energy advocates who see President Trump’s executive order on energy policy last week as an abdication of the federal government’s leadership in the sector ...
WASHINGTON, March 29, 2017 - The head of a national ethanol advocacy group says a "fly-in" of more than 70 members into Washington, D.C., last week netted significantly positive response ...
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22, 2017 - Scott Graves, the former Republican staff director of the House Agriculture Committee who recently joined the law and lobbying firm, Williams & Jensen, has been named executive director of the American Association of Crop Insurers.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22, 2017 - A bipartisan group of 23 senators, led by Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., have sent a letter to President Trump urging him to maintain the point of obligation under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and reject any proposed changes that would “upend the current successful system.”
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22, 2017 - In 2016, the U.S. exported more than 1 billion gallons (68,000 barrels per day) of fuel ethanol, an increase of 26 percent from 2015, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Washington, Mar. 15, 2017 - The agricultural community is mourning the loss of Kika de la Garza, a long-time congressman from South Texas who chaired the House Agriculture Committee for 14 years.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 15, 2017 - Installed wind electric generating capacity in the nation surpassed conventional hydroelectric generating capacity in 2016, new data from the Energy Information Administration show.
WASHINGTON, March 9, 2017 – The four leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture committees will all be featured speakers at the upcoming Agri-Pulse Farm Bill Summit. The event, “Harvesting Farm Bill Perspectives,” will be held March 20 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., from 8 a.m. to 5 p.
