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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, February 27, 2025
At a hearing Tuesday of the House Agriculture subcommittee that has oversight of commodity exchanges, Republican Chairman Austin Scott and Democrat David Scott, both from Georgia, agreed that CFTC would be reauthorized soon, but didnÐt say when.
Thirty public and private leaders from around the world are endorsing a report that calls on the U.S. government to provide leadership on global malnutrition and food insecurity issues by committing to a long-term, globally minded agricultural development and food systems strategy&
The head of the Organic Trade Association (OTA) told a sold-out conference Wednesday morning that the results of a recent annual survey show Ðorganic has turned a corner.Ð
Will rural areas eventually receive the same type of high-speed Internet access that many of their urban cousins enjoy? The answer to the question is still in dispute as service providers and their federal regulators duke it out in the courts over controversial new rules.
Dramatic growth in the craft beer sector domestically and abroad over the past five years has translated into big opportunities for American hop and barley producers who cultivate the industrys most essential inputs.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is urging farmers, ranchers and agribusiness owners to `personally lobby` Congress to quickly pass fast track negotiating authority for President Obama and to support the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) said it is listing the northern long-eared bat as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, securing certain regulatory protections for the mammal and triggering charges of government overreach from some agricultural gro
One of USDA°s voluntary conservation programs for producers ° the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) ° will provide $332 million in financial and technical assistance to farmers, ranchers and other private landowners who enroll acreage in conservation
Bill Gates encouraged members of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee today to vote in favor of modest federal investments in foreign aid initiatives, including agriculture.
House Judiciary Committee members heard arguments and made their own for and against the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) finalized Open Internet Order that reclassifies broadband Internet access service as public utility service.