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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, November 07, 2024
In this opinion piece, Kristin Duncanson, owner and partner at Highland Family Farms, advocates for Congress to establish a National Center for Conservation Economics in the next farm bill, addressing a critical need for comprehensive financial information on conservation practices.
The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program is funding 10-year awards for farmer-driven grants and grassroots education programs at five universities.
Congress should be careful to avoid overbuilding processing capacity and instituting prescriptive marketing requirements as it studies its response to a pair of turbulent years in the beef industry, witnesses told a House Agriculture subcommittee Wednesday morning.
In this opinion piece, Zenith Tandukar a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota discusses the role of agriculture in climate change, and his research on domesticating pennycress as a cover crop that will return revenue to the farm.
As coronavirus cases rise across the country, ag economists expect producers could face headwinds such as volatility and uncertainty in demand for their products for the remainder of the year and into 2021.
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