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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, March 29, 2025
John A. Schnittker, under secretary of agriculture under former President Lyndon B. Johnson and later an influential Washington farm policy consultant, died September 13 at his home near Santa Ynez, California, of heart failure. He was 95.
Michael R. McLeod, who retired from agricultural lobbying to write books and operate a rustic cabin resort in the Appalachian Mountains, died earlier this week.
Edwin A. (Ed) Jaenke, former governor of the Farm Credit Administration, died Tuesday of complications of lung cancer at the Windsor Meade Retirement Community in Williamsburg, Va. He was 89.
Former Sen. Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican who won admirers from both political parties during a 36-year Senate career, died Sunday from complications of a chronic neurological disorder, according to the nonprofit Lugar Center, which he had founded.
(Editor’s note: This is the sixth installment in our seven-part in-depth editorial series where we look ahead at “Farm & Food 2040.” This story focuses on the expanding use of marketing and product differentiation available through food labels and how consumers digest that buffet of information.)
Two former nearly all-white Nebraska towns appear to have integrated a surge of Spanish-speaking immigrants, mostly meatpacking plant workers, more smoothly than other communities in similar circumstances, according to a report from the Center for American Progress.
Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith won Tuesday's runoff election for U.S. Senate from Mississippi, defeating Democrat Mike Espy by 54 to 46 percent of the votes tallied last night.
Trade policy uncertainty following U.S. imposition of import tariffs and retaliation by China and other trading partners has forced International Monetary Fund economists to adopt a more pessimistic outlook for growth in the global economy.
There are some similarities and some notable differences between the current 'trade war' with China and the Soviet Grain embargo, according to economists.
