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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
President Donald Trump’s selection of an Ivy League-educated populist, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, affirms the ongoing protectionist shift of the GOP, raising the stakes for farmers who would bear the brunt of new trade wars in a Trump-Vance administration.
Last year, SNAP recipients were overpaid at a national average rate of 10.03% and underpaid 1.64%, according to USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service. The payment errors are not synonymous with fraud and instead reflect how accurately states, which administer SNAP benefits, determine eligibility and payment amounts.
In this opinion piece, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan, discusses how the Republican farm bill framework would enhance national food security while benefitting rural Americans far beyond the field.
House members return to Washington to battle over fiscal 2025 spending bills ahead of the national party conventions, and Ag Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson says he’ll be trying to round up support for the farm bill his panel advanced before the Memorial Day weekend.
The House Agriculture Committee's farm bill may not get a floor vote until September at the earliest due to the appropriations process that is expected to dominate the chamber's work this summer, Chairman Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., told Agri-Pulse Thursday during a break in the committee's debate over the legislation.
Leaders of the House and Senate Ag committees announced dueling plans for a new farm bill as the partisan impasse appeared to deepen ahead of the House panel’s planned votes on May 23. House Ag Chairman Glenn Thompson released a broad summary of his planned legislation, and his Senate counterpart, Debbie Stabenow, followed with a much more detailed section-by-section summary of her draft bill.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack heads to Capitol Hill this week amid a deepening partisan stalemate over how to fund a new farm bill, and he will also keynote USDA's 2024 Ag Outlook Forum
The EPA and Army Corps of Engineers’ revisions to their March “waters of the U.S.” rule, which narrowed the scope of the rule based on the Supreme Court’s Sackett decision, were greeted with resignation and protest Tuesday.
