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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Senators John Thune, R-S.D., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, introduced legislation designed to make the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) program more attractive to farmers in the next farm bill.
Citing high rates of suicide in farm country, Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., and Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, are introducing a bill to provide mental health support and more resources in rural areas.
Last week’s decision by a U.S. Appeals Court dealt another blow to the Montana beef checkoff and signaled a significant victory for the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund (R-CALF), an organization that’s made no secret about its desire to challenge other state beef checkoff programs and more broadly, other checkoff programs.
T-Mobile USA agreed to pay a $40 million fine after the Federal Communications Commission concluded the company failed to fix rural calling problems that violated federal law.
If you followed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, you know that he talked tough on trade – especially when it came to countries he believed were giving the U.S. a raw deal.
In the latest salvo of trade actions between the U.S. and Chinese governments, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced plans today to impose a 25 percent tariff on $50 billion of U.S. goods, including soybeans, aircraft and automobiles, according to the Chinese News Agency, Xinhua.
The “No Taste for Waste” campaign connects consumers to real farmers who use sustainable practices and act as good stewards of the land, while reducing food waste.
An Arkansas ban on the use of dicamba for crop protection during certain months this year will continue, with the exception of six farmers who won the right to do so.
The farmers and ranchers who helped put Donald Trump into the White House still give him fairly high marks, but there appears to be some erosion in the number who would like to see him re-elected, according to a new Agri-Pulse survey.