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Sunday, April 06, 2025
House GOP leaders were facing heavy pressure from farm groups and their allies in Congress on Sunday to add economic assistance for row crop producers to a year-end stopgap spending bill. House Democrats will pick a ranking member for the House Agriculture Committee on Monday.
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.
In this opinion piece, Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., and Corey Rosenbusch of the Fertilizer Institute discuss the need to designate phosphate and potash as critical minerals.
Bruce Bodine has been tapped as the next president and CEO of the Mosaic Company and the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture has brought on Becky Garrison Warfel as the new director of public policy.
Janie Hipp has been tapped as the new lead of the Native Agriculture Financial Services organization and Shelby Young has joined USA Rice as the new manager of government affairs.
In this opinion piece, Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., and Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, discuss the increasingly catastrophic nature of wildfires rural communities are facing, and the need for proactive guidance from the U.S. Forest Service for the 2023 fire season.
In this opinion piece, Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., and Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., discuss their shared priorities and work they hope to achieve in the 118th Congress and how important it is to represent the rural way of life in our nation’s capital.
Gina Dockstader has been appointed to serve on the California Farm Water Coalition and Mike Stephan has been elevated to vice president of sales and business development at Monterey Mushrooms.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., has announced she will not seek reelection, and Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., has been selected to serve as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in California has appointed Wendy Rash as the new State Water Quality Specialist on the Ecological Sciences Staff and Speaker Anthony Rendon has appointed Assemblymember Eloise Reyes, D- San Bernardino, as the next Assembly Majority Leader for the 2021-22 Session.
