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USDA calls on producers to review conservation practice standards

11/13/24 7:02 AM By Chloe Lovejoy

USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service is soliciting comments on its Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation conservation practice standards.

Cover crops can be valuable when water is scarce, report says

06/12/24 7:00 AM By Lydia Johnson

More than 30 authors of a CDFA-led study say flexibility is needed from local California groundwater sustainability agencies to allow water availability for cover crops.

Farm Hands West: Newsom appoints Jameson deputy secretary for climate and working lands at CDFA

11/24/21 7:15 AM By Hannah Pagel

Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed Virginia Jameson as the Deputy Secretary for Climate and Working Lands at the California Department of Food and Agriculture and Alice Busching Reynolds as the next president of the California Public Utilities Commission.

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March 30, 2025

Agri-Pulse Open Mic: Chuck Conner, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives

This week’s Open Mic guest is Chuck Conner, president and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. Conner suggests the nation’s farmer owned cooperatives are well stocked as producers prepare for the 2025 growing season. Conner says many co-ops anticipated tariff issues and took early shipment of supplies for this season. A veteran of Capitol Hill policy debates, he acknowledges plenty of uncertainty surrounding the farm bill, tax policy and tariffs. Despite challenges, Conner believes legislators will take action on taxes and hopefully a new set of farm and nutrition programs.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: April 4, 2025: Sen. Hoeven on tariffs, budget reconciliation

President Trump unveiled a massive tariff plan this week adding a 10% across-the-board tariff on imports, plus a higher reciprocal tariff on many U.S. trading partners. We asked Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., how the tariffs will affect producers and how farm bill elements may be incorporated into budget reconciliation.

Then, the American Soybean Association's Virginia Houston and Joe Glauber from the International Food Policy Research Institute discuss which producers could be hurt the most by the tariffs and how farmers' cost of production will increase.

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