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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, March 21, 2025
States are learning that the Food and Drug Administration will cut funding for state cooperative agreements on produce and manufactured food inspections and recall teams by up to 60% as the overall agency budget has remained stagnant.
The Senate is back in session this week with a key nomination for trade policy on senators’ to-do list, as well as the GOP budget resolution. Howard Lutnick’s nomination to be secretary of commerce is next in line for the Senate after the nomination of Kash Patel, the far more controversial pick to lead the FBI.
The House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee voted Monday to recommend Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig to take over as ranking member of the Agriculture Committee in 2025, unseating the party’s current leader, David Scott.
In this opinion piece, Tim Trotter, CEO of Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, explains why producers should support USDA's reforms to federal milk marketing orders, even though the department didn't go far enough.
Tim Walz leaned on values learned during his rural upbringing in Nebraska, his experience in Congress, and as governor of Minnesota to make the case that Kamala Harris should be president of the United States — and he should be the vice president.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz gave a rousing speech to Democratic supporters in Philadelphia Tuesday night after being announced as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate in the Nov. 5 election against Donald Trump and his VP nominee, JD Vance.
The list of states reporting highly pathogenic avian influenza in dairy herds has grown to a dozen with Friday's announcement by Wyoming of a detection there.
Outreach, education and providing clean water to vulnerable populations are at the core of a Minnesota work plan to address elevated nitrate levels in the southeastern part of the state, with a look at agricultural practices part of a longer-term response.
President Joe Biden, standing in a Minnesota farmer's shed, took shots at agriculture industry consolidation and touted his administration's delivery of $5 billion in conservation and infrastructure spending as he kicked off of a two-week White House "barnstorm" of rural America.
