Articles Tagged with ''Conservation Reserve Program''

Thompson, Stabenow offer opposing farm bill plans amid ongoing partisan battle

05/01/24 5:00 AM By Philip Brasher

Leaders of the House and Senate Ag committees announced dueling plans for a new farm bill as the partisan impasse appeared to deepen ahead of the House panel’s planned votes on May 23. House Ag Chairman Glenn Thompson released a broad summary of his planned legislation, and his Senate counterpart, Debbie Stabenow, followed with a much more detailed section-by-section summary of her draft bill.

Washington Week Ahead: Parties joust over farm bill, GREET update expected

04/28/24 9:44 AM By Philip Brasher and Noah Wicks

The Biden administration is expected to announce key updates this week to its carbon-intensity scoring for sustainable aviation fuel this week, while lawmakers are struggling to break a partisan impasse over a new farm bill that Republicans are determined to move through the House Ag Committee in May.

USDA distributes $1.7B in annual Conservation Reserve Program payments

10/16/23 3:41 PM By Noah Wicks

The Agriculture Department paid landowners more than $1.77 billion in 2023 for the more than 23 million acres of private land in the Conservation Reserve Program.

‘Dairy cliff’ looms yet again with no resolution to farm bill

09/13/23 6:21 AM By Philip Brasher

Lawmakers say they’re far from reaching agreement on a new farm bill, but farmers and consumers needn’t fear. The prospect of $10-a-gallon milk next year likely will ensure that Congress passes some kind of extension of the 2018 farm bill by early 2024.

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Opinion: Congress should build on CRP’s impressive record of success

08/18/23 2:18 PM By Collin O’Mara, Marilyn Vetter, Whit Fosburgh, and Adam Putnam

In this opinion piece, Collin O’Mara of the National Wildlife Federation, Whit Fosburgh of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, Marilyn Vetter of Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever and Adam Putnam of Ducks Unlimited discuss how Congress can continue to build on the Conservation Reserve Program’s success in addressing conservation challenges while benefiting farmers, wildlife and the environment.

Opinion: Prioritizing marginal land: Why we need CRP reform

08/02/23 2:35 PM By Mike Seyfert

In this opinion piece, Mike Seyfert of the National Grain and Feed Association discusses the CRP Reform Act of 2023.

House Republicans considering major changes to CRP

07/26/23 6:25 AM By Noah Wicks

Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee are eying big changes to the Conservation Reserve Program in the upcoming farm bill, though many influential voices question whether the efforts will gain much steam.

Stakes for farm bill expiration lower this time, but 2024 impacts loom

07/26/23 6:23 AM By Philip Brasher

Lawmakers are about to break for their August recess with just two months to go before some programs in the 2018 farm bill expire, and not even a draft of the new legislation is in sight. But the stakes for not passing a fresh farm bill on time may be lower this year than in the past.

Daybreak July 21: Stabenow; CBO slowing down farm bill

07/21/23 10:00 AM By Philip Brasher, Noah Wicks, Bill Tomson, and Steve Davies

Prospects for moving a farm bill anytime soon are anything but improved with the director of the Congressional Budget Office telling lawmakers he can’t add staff to work on the legislation.

CBO defends work on farm bill, declines to add staff

07/20/23 12:31 PM By Philip Brasher

The director of the Congressional Budget Office on Thursday pushed back against concerns that its analysts are taking too long to deliver farm bill cost estimates to the House and Senate Ag committees and said it wasn’t practical to add staff to deal with the legislation.

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04.26.2024

Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: April 26, 2024: USDA Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Lester Moffitt on bird flu, competition

USDA Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Lester Moffitt oversees the Agricultural Marketing Service and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. She joins us to discuss the latest on the bird flu outbreak and how USDA is responding.

Then, Michael Dykes with the International Dairy Foods Association and Fred Gingrich with the American Association of Bovine Practitioners join to chat more about the impact the bird flu has had on the dairy industry.

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