Items Tagged with 'farm policy'

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.

The 39th president regularly showed minimal regard for the political implications of his decisions, notably in farm policy. From commodity price supports to the Soviet grain embargo, Carter often made a choice he felt was right for the country, only to see the decision backfire politically.

President Joe Biden is set to release his fiscal 2025 budget even as lawmakers are still trying to finish work on some of the biggest and most contentious of their FY24 spending bills.

A key member of the House Committee on Agriculture outlined major challenges confronting those who want to pass a new farm bill during the annual International Sweetener Symposium.

The Senate brings out its fiscal 2024 spending measure for USDA and FDA this week, a bill that is shaping up to be an early test of a coming showdown with House Republicans over government funding. 

In this opinion piece, Scott Faber of the Environmental Working Group says Rep. Collin Peterson's recent criticism of EWG's Farm Subsidy Database contains numerous errors.

In this opinion piece, former Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., discusses the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) use of statistics when speaking about U.S. farm policy.