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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
In this joint opinion piece, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., and House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., highlight legislation they recently introduced to reform the Endangered Species Act.
The Bureau of Land Management has finalized a rule that will allow conservation leases on its land by giving land protection and restoration equal footing with grazing, energy development and other long-standing uses of the 245 million acres the agency controls.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will be defending Biden administration policies this week, starting today as keynote speaker for the annual Washington meeting of the North American Agricultural Journalists.
In this opinion piece, Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wa. and Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga, celebrate the farmers and ranchers who are the backbone of our country as part of National Agriculture Day.
Thirty-one lawmakers spend their time outside of the nation’s capitol farming, ranching or running cattle operations, according to a new Congressional Research Service report.
A steady stream of lawmakers filed into the House Ag Committee's hearing room Tuesday where they advocated for changes to crop insurance, trade program expansion and a slate of other policies on their farm bill wishlists.
A slate of actions aimed at preparing the Pacific Northwest for a scenario in which four dams on the Lower Snake River are breached appears to be under consideration as the Biden Administration looks to resolve a 22-year-long legal dispute over declining salmon populations, according to a draft settlement document circulated by four House lawmakers.
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), Public Lands Council (PLC), and Washington Cattlemen’s Association (WCA), along with several prominent national agricultural organizations, submitted comments in opposition to the Biden administration's proposal to reintroduce grizzly bears to the North Cascades Ecosystem (NCE) in Washington state.
