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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
The House Agriculture Committee released a new farm bill draft today, with a preliminary score of $39.7 billion in savings over ten years. The language in the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (FARRM) is largely similar to the bill passed through committee last year, with larger cu
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today announced it will require additional environment reviews on herbicide-resistant crops waiting to be approved for the market.
Senator John Thune, R-S.D., said he expects the farm bill being marked up in the Senate Agriculture Committee on May 14 to look similar to the Senate-passed legislation in 2012, unless southern committee members succeed in maintaining current commodity title programs.
CHICAGO, May 1, 2013- Canadian research projects highlighted at the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s (BIO) 2013 International Convention in Chicago last week include
President Barack Obama’s nominee for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Gina McCarthy, discussed the EPA’s “deteriorating†relationship with agriculture during her confirmation hearing today before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., led a bipartisan group of lawmakers today in introducing legislation to eliminate the conventional biofuels mandate of the Renewable Fuels Act (RFS) and cap the amount of ethanol that can be blended into the fuel supply.
A demonstration organized by “Food Democracy Now!†today in front of the White House consisted of a handful of activists attempting to grab the attention of passers-by and tourists.
Executive Director of the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, Roberto Lenton hosted conversations about these challenges in Washington D.C. this week as well as today at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (DWFI).
The House Agriculture Committee today approved several reforms to the nation’s major financial regulatory overhaul bill passed in 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
