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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Brooke Rollins appears poised for Senate confirmation after a Senate Ag Committee hearing where she strongly defended President Donald Trump’s policies while stressing repeatedly that she’ll work to protect U.S. agriculture.
Key lawmakers are working on a two-pronged approach to help row crop producers who’ve been hit by the downturn in commodity markets. A lot of work remains to be done, but the goal is to attach some kind of ag relief to a one-year farm bill extension in December.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies have been on Capitol Hill this week trying to build support for his claims that the food industry and agricultural practices are responsible for chronic childhood diseases. This comes amid questions about what role, if any, RFK Jr. could have in a second Trump administration.
EPA and the agrichemical industry are defending the agency’s regulation of pesticides against claims by environmental groups that some of them are, in fact, PFAS.
A new firefighting foam derived from soybeans could provide a new market for U.S. soybean meal and replace some of the substances that have contaminated underground water supplies with “forever chemicals” known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
New cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office detail the funding gap that House Ag Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson faces as he moves his farm bill this week.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is announcing the first $300 million in awards to commodity groups today under a $1.2 billion trade promotion initiative he’s funding through his Commodity Credit Corporation spending authority.
Last week, the EPA took a major step in addressing PFAS contamination by finalizing a national drinking water standard for some chemicals. The next step for stakeholders will focus on funding water systems to meet the new standards. While the Biden administration has opened additional funds for this task, water systems say it’s not enough.
The Biden administration finalized a national drinking water standard Wednesday aimed at protecting communities from exposure to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS.
