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Saturday, April 12, 2025
The Agriculture Department is moving to reverse a change to milk pricing that was made in the 2018 farm bill that was subsequently blamed for a drop in prices received by producers.
New EPA greenhouse gas standards requiring steep emissions reductions for heavy-duty trucks and buses don’t have the same buy-in from the industry enjoyed by the agency’s rule on cars and medium-duty vehicles released about a week earlier.
The government could save taxpayers “hundreds of millions per year” by reducing crop insurance companies’ rate of return on the program in line with market conditions, according to the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress.
A forest conservation easement program (FCEP) proposed for inclusion in the farm bill is getting support from “a broad coalition of conservation, sportsmen and working forest organizations and companies,” the Land Trust Alliance said Tuesday.
Lawmakers are proposing creation of an Office of Rural Prosperity in the White House, which would be tasked with coordinating rural policy across the government.
Representatives of the nation’s dairy producers say they’d like the chance to contribute to hearings that would take place under new legislation offered in the Senate.
