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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, December 19, 2024
For some small farmers, the dual use of land for agriculture and solar energy generation, known as is gaining steam as a path to future profitability. But the industry is still in its infancy.
At least 36% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from rural America due to higher-emitting activities, despite the lower population in these areas, according to a new report.
The Bureau of Land Management has finalized a rule that will allow conservation leases on its land by giving land protection and restoration equal footing with grazing, energy development and other long-standing uses of the 245 million acres the agency controls.
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack made a series of energy infrastructure announcements Wednesday, including the first under an Inflation Reduction Act effort to stand up renewable energy projects in rural America.
The House Agriculture Committee’s Democratic minority on Wednesday released a set of farm bill priorities that make clear they are united in opposing any cuts in projected nutrition assistance or Inflation Reduction Act funding to pay for boosting commodity programs or addressing other parts of the farm bill.
Interest in agrivoltaics is increasing as the practice is seen as a potential solution to competing land use, and a bipartisan pair of senators is pushing for new research funding in the next farm bill.
The Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy for America Program is receiving a $1 billion boost from the Inflation Reduction Act to fund projects improving the renewable energy infrastructure across farm country.
An Agriculture Department program that is set to play a big role in the Biden administration's efforts to deploy renewable energy and increase energy efficiency on farms and in rural areas has been steering the bulk of its funding into solar projects, but USDA officials will be looking to diversify technologies somewhat with a historic infusion of new funding from the Inflation Reduction Act
The $1.75 trillion Build Back Better bill that congressional Democrats are struggling to get across the finish line offers new incentives to expand production of biofuels while encouraging livestock operations to capture and sell biogas.
