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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, February 16, 2025
The 2024 election is six days away. Several House districts that are represented by Ag Committee members or have significant agricultural production could be key to determining control of the chamber.
Republican dominance of farm country has neared the point where only a handful of major agricultural districts are in play in this fall’s elections, but the GOP hold on the House is so tenuous that races for those seats could potentially determine which party wins control of the chamber.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is under fire again from House Republicans over the Commodity Credit Corporation, this time both for suggesting the CCC could be used to supplement farm bill funding but also for refusing to use it to make disaster relief payments to some California producers.
In this opinion piece, Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif., highlights several provisions in the ag spending bill before Congress this week and its investments to ensure rural communities have the necessary resources.
A House bill introduced Thursday would address one of the top farm bill goals for specialty crop growers by setting up a grant program to ease the cost of adopting automation in their operations.
California Republican David Valadao, who lives on his family's dairy farm in central California, says he's concerned that a new agreement to curb the use of the Colorado River could lead to higher water prices for producers in his district.
Justin Kosta has been tapped as the new director of sustainability for California Giant Berry Farms and Valent U.S.A. has named Kenneth Seebold as the director of field research and development.
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