Items Tagged with 'USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service'

USDA is releasing a final rule today under the Packers and Stockyards Act to protect meat and poultry producers from discrimination and retaliation by packers, swine dealers and live poultry dealers.

The House is expected to vote today on whether to expel New York Republican George Santos following an Ethics Committee report released in November. It will take a two-thirds majority of the House to remove Santos.

Conservative firebrand Jim Jordan is working to nail down the House speakership.

USDA will be in the crosshairs this week as House Republicans try to satisfy demands from their right flank.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., says he still intends to get a farm bill through the House this year, despite the ongoing turmoil in the chamber.

David Grahn has returned to the Farm Credit Administration as the new general counsel and The Senate confirmed Anna Gomez 55-43 to serve as the fifth member of the Federal Communications Commission.

David Grahn has returned to the Farm Credit Administration as the new general counsel and the Senate has confirmed Anna Gomez 55-43 to serve as the fifth commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission.

Lawmakers continue to struggle with what to do about commodity programs in a new farm bill, including how to pay for increases in reference prices. One idea is to require farmers to update their base acreage to reflect current plantings.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, are proposing a bill requiring the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to review foreign entities’ land purchases or leases exceeding $4 million or 320 acres of land over the past three years and adding the Agriculture Secretary as a member of the panel.

Brazil is finishing up the harvest of a record-breaking crop this year, and USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service is now predicting the country’s farmers will plant an even bigger one for the 2023-24 marketing year.