Items Tagged with 'National Press Club'

Two leading Republicans have jumped into the race for House speaker, Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the current House majority leader, and Jim Jordan of Ohio, the House Judiciary Committee chairman.

As the climate policy debate ramps up in Congress and the incoming Biden administration, there are a variety of ideas about how to measure, incentivize and regulate more sustainable practices. The 2021 Agri-Pulse Ag & Food Policy Summit will offer a chance to engage with a wide variety of policy makers and industry experts about what changes may be on the horizon.

Private-sector funding of agricultural research has been growing quickly in recent years, but that does not diminish the importance of using public money to support advances in farming, a panel of experts said at a Farm Foundation forum at the National Press Club Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, March 20, 2017 – To encourage conservation, the upcoming farm bill should leave farmers in charge of how to best care for the land and water while helping growers see how conservation helps them economically, panelists said at a Farm Bill Summit hosted by Agri-Pulse.