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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the funding mechanism for the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund is unconstitutional.
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is rapidly staffing up to help farmers with their conservation challenges, and that brings with it the need to train the new employees. However, the agency is finding that many of these new conservationists didn’t grow up on a farm and need help understanding the different types of farming systems they will encounter.
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.
The Federal Communications Commission faces a murky path forward in its efforts to bolster phone and internet access in rural America after a federal appeals court deemed the funding source for a number of its connectivity programs unconstitutional.
The way fees are collected from telecommunications companies for the Universal Service Fund, which defrays the cost of phone and internet access in rural areas, is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Groups and lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle are scrambling to save a popular broadband affordability program before it runs out of funding.
Expanding broadband internet to rural America won’t be easy or cheap. But if Microsoft is right, the rural/urban broadband gap could be eliminated within five years.
