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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2017 - Explaining a new focus for U.S. energy policy, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Tuesday said he and President Trump are going beyond “energy independence” to pursue “energy dominance.”
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2017 - Agricultural shippers and other waterway users are struggling to talk the Trump administration out of relying on new tolls and user fees to pay for lock-and-dam reconstruction projects.
WASHINGTON, May 3, 2017 - After only a week in office and without a subcabinet in place, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is moving forward on projects like mapping out what the Trump administration can do to improve rural infrastructure across the country and preparing to help renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.
As Congress and the administration work to address the challenges facing our nation, it’s important they don’t forget rural America and the importance of reliable power
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2017 – Capitol Hill appropriators received a pair of letters Wednesday outlining funding priorities for conservation and waterway infrastructure.
Several years of low commodity prices are making life difficult on the farm, and small towns across the country face serious challenges to modernize their infrastructure.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22, 2017 - U.S. imports of biomass-based diesel, which include biodiesel and renewable diesel, increased by 65 percent in 2016 to reach a record level of 916 million gallons, according to a new report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2017 - In his first address to Congress, President Trump Tuesday night declared that the “time for small thinking is over” and called for massive infrastructure spending, deep tax cuts and immigration reforms that he promised would unleash new economic growth.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2017 - Donald Trump assumed the presidency today with a strong, populist pledge to rebuild the economy and the nation’s infrastructure by putting American interests first.