Items Tagged with 'American Farm Bureau Federation'

Delegates attending the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual resolutions session updated several policies and went into executive session to modify their organization’s bylaws, in what many assumed was an effort to clarify membership guidelines and address potential outcomes of an ongoing legal dispute with Illinois Farm Bureau.

Foreign investors owned 3.5% of America's farm, ranch, and forest land in 2023, a 1.5-million acre increase from the year prior, according to a new Agriculture Department report.

In 2024, rural America played a large role in carrying Donald Trump to the White House for a second time. Across the country, hurricanes damaged ag infrastructure in Florida, the Carolinas and the Southeastern U.S., and H5N1 spread to dairy cattle. 

After months of development, the farm bill passed out of the House Ag Committee with four Democratic votes and guarded optimism, but it never even made it to the House floor, ultimately leading to another one-year extension of the 2018 farm bill.

Producers worried that they would have to file ownership reports with the Treasury Department next month got a reprieve Thursday when a federal appeals court reinstated an injunction blocking enforcement of the new requirement.

Farm groups have a lot to cheer in the massive year-end funding bill that congressional leaders finally released Tuesday evening. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson wants to take up a new farm bill early in 2025, and he says he's encouraging farm groups to "relax" about RFK Jr.

Negotiations over a package of market relief assistance for farmers reached an impasse Saturday after Democratic leaders rejected the latest GOP proposal, and several major farm groups called on lawmakers to oppose a stopgap spending bill if the economic aid is omitted.

In this opinion piece, Kailee Tkacz Buller, President and CEO of the National Oilseed Processors Association (NOPA), highlights the uncertainty facing the biofuels sector as it awaits 45Z guidance amid increased foreign feedstock imports and lack of strong RVOs.