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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
USDA wants public entities to submit suggestions to help it establish protocols for the Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program, a venture assigned to USDA by the Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is preparing to confirm later this morning that he will be using $2.3 billion in funding from USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation to help farm groups promote their goods in foreign markets as well as donate more U.S.-grown commodities to those in need overseas, according to government officials.
USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service will spend $8 million for carbon measurement and monitoring on agricultural lands through partnerships with four institutions.
The International Food Information Council released its annual Food and Health Survey Tuesday, which showed a higher reliance on price and less on climate concerns in consumer purchasing decisions.
In this opinion piece, Adam Kiel of the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund and Sarah Alexander and Jonathan Geurts of the Keystone Policy Center discussTransparency in Agricultural Climate Markets.
Drought conditions that have been concentrated in the West and southern Plains are likely to spread in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and South Dakota this summer, according to the U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook.
In this opinion piece, Ertharin Cousin, Catherine Bertini and Dan Glickman with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs address the need for the development of coalitions that elevate the food systems agenda.
The White House released a $1.75 trillion spending agreement with congressional Democrats, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed colleagues to vote Thursday for a separate infrastructure bill.
U.S. airlines announced a goal to use 3 billion gallons of renewable jet fuel by 2030, and the White House released a plan to spur development of the biofuel the industry will need.
