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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
USDA has directed crop insurance companies to expedite loss adjustments necessary to make payments to producers impacted by Hurricane Helene, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Friday.
USDA is releasing a final rule today under the Packers and Stockyards Act to protect meat and poultry producers from discrimination and retaliation by packers, swine dealers and live poultry dealers.
Internet service providers will soon be competing to provide high-speed, broadband internet service to the most remote and hard-to-reach areas in the country.
In the wake of Tropical Storm Hilary, California Sen. Alex Padilla unveiled new legislation Monday aimed at making it easier for specialty crop farmers to get disaster assistance.
California farmer A.G. Kawamura has been elected as a co-chair of the United Nations Environment Program’s Farmers Major Group and the Washington State Wine Commission has hired Kristina Kelley as its new executive director.
President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Anna M. Gomez, Geoffrey Adam Starks, and Brendan Carr as commissioners to the Federal Communications Commission and the Biotechnology Innovation Organization has brought on John Torres as the director of federal government relations for agriculture and the environment.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters he.“didn’t see any new movement" at a meeting with President Biden and congressional leaders, but Biden said they agreed to continue talking.
Brazil is finishing up the harvest of a record-breaking crop this year, and USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service is now predicting the country’s farmers will plant an even bigger one for the 2023-24 marketing year.
