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Saturday, April 12, 2025
Members of the House and Senate Agriculture committees are proposing to move the Food for Peace program from the U.S. Agency for International Development to the Department of Agriculture.
The chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee that handles trade policy says he’s concerned about the U.S. becoming embroiled in tit-for-tat tariff escalations that could lead to ag producers facing new duties.
An Arkansas Republican who's co-leading a House Agriculture Committee working group on farm labor says the ongoing problems at the U.S-Mexico border make it harder for lawmakers to address producers' need for more workers.
A senior Republican on the House Ag Committee, Arkansas Rep. Rick Crawford, says little legislatively is likely to get done this year after March, given the political calendar.
The future of a new farm bill as well as spending on ag and nutrition programs are at stake as Republicans struggle to agree on a new House speaker this week.
Bipartisan momentum is building to scale up and tweak the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) and enhance the offering of the healthy incentive pilots funded at $20 million in the 2008 farm bill.
House lawmakers are setting the stage for a farm bill battle over international food aid with new legislation to diminish the role of non-profit humanitarian groups and eliminate the roles of cash and non-U.S. origin food in the assistance delivered around the world.
Leaders of the House Agriculture Committee announced the formation of a 14-member working group, evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, that is supposed to find solutions for the labor challenges facing farmers.
Eight GOP members of the House Agriculture Committee are calling for a hearing with the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to discuss the nation’s pesticide law.
