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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, September 02, 2024
As more farmers complete harvest and finalize their crop insurance claims, the number of indemnity payments exceeded $5 billion and continues to climb.
With the dust barely settled from last week’s hotly contested elections, lawmakers return Tuesday to try to find a mutually accepted path forward on the nation’s fiscal problems and perhaps address several other long-simmering issues
Crop insurance payouts – already destined to reach record levels this year – will likely climb higher with USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) announcement of harvest price options for revenue protection plans.
The Obama campaign criticizes Mitt Romney's record on agriculture in Massachusetts, but Romney supporters say claims are misleading and that he was a strong supporter of agriculture in his state.
In their third and final presidential debate, which was supposedly dedicated to foreign policy, both President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney focused almost as much on domestic policy issues which are key to many undecided voters.
In the nation’s first and only vice presidential debate Vice President Joe Biden was in fighting mode last night, delivering the type of feisty and spirited performance that many found lacking when President Barack Obama debated Gov. Mitt Romney a week earlier.
