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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, August 05, 2024
Michael Scuse, acting Undersecretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural services (FFAS), put “an extremely productive†label on the latest round of bilateral talks with China
Aid and international development groups said they’ll push Congress to at least reauthorize a $60 million program that allows for the purchase of food closer to the areas where it is needed and require U.S. food assistance shipments to be more nutritious.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture decided to jettison many of the most controversial provisions of the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) proposed rule to reform livestock and poultry marketing practices, Agri-Pulse has learned.
The House and Senate Agriculture Committees spent the weekend working on the remaining details of their deficit reduction recommendations to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.
The National Farmers Union (NFU) says the 2012 Farm bill should combine parts of the SURE, ACRE, and Direct and Countercyclical Payment programs to create an all encompassing safety net
The largest U.S. farm organization asked Congress Thursday to continue the existing farm safety net structure in the 2012 Farm Bill and to make proportional spending cuts in the four titles of the legislation that comprise virtually all of the funding under the jurisdiction of the House and Senate