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Saturday, April 05, 2025
California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s year-end estimate of the state wolf population has rounded up to nine packs – an increase from seven at the end of 2023.
The House has narrowly passed a spending bill containing deep cuts to EPA's budget and dozens of legislative riders that Democrats call “poison pills," setting up a difficult negotiation with the Senate, where the Appropriations Committee advanced a markedly different bill Thursday.
The House will debate a package of six spending bills that include funding for departments and agencies critical to agriculture, and Republicans are pushing for votes on amendments aimed at highlighting key parts of President Joe Biden’s regulatory agenda.
A federal judge has reversed the Trump administration's decision to delist the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act, restoring protections for an animal often at odds with ranchers and livestock.
President-elect Joe Biden is out with a $1.9 trillion stimulus proposal that includes some significant new food assistance provisions, including an extension through the summer of the 15% increase in SNAP benefits provided by the COVID aid package enacted in December.
There are new questions about what farmers will have to pay foreign workers next year under the H-2A program. A federal judge’s ruling has barred USDA from suspending its annual farm wage survey that is used to calculate H-2A wage rates.
The gray wolf in the lower 48 states has recovered to the point where it no longer needs to be listed as an endangered species, the Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday.
A Colorado ballot measure to reintroduce the gray wolf to Western Colorado is one of many state ballot initiatives critical to food and ag policy voters who are considering how to mark their ballots this year.
The Fish and Wildlife Service’s plans to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list drew praise from ranchers and condemnation from environmental groups, who say they will take legal action to retain federal protection.
