Items Tagged with 'Kevin Scott'

The Department of Agriculture is projecting a farm income boost for 2021, but growers are looking ahead to 2022 and worried about the role rising input costs will play in their bottom lines.

U.S. farm groups and some lawmakers used a hearing held by the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture to stress the need for a more aggressive U.S. trade policy that prioritizes the negotiation of new free trade agreements in order to boost U.S. agricultural exports.

A bipartisan infrastructure deal that President Joe Biden is endorsing would provide a dramatic increase in spending for rural broadband while also pouring new money into roads and bridges and U.S. waterway improvements.

Leaders of the American Soybean Association tasked the organization with action on climate, conservation and trade policy as part of the group’s recent policy process.

The nation’s food and agriculture groups are glad to have a familiar face back at the helm of the Department of Agriculture.