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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
A Kansas lawmaker is asking for his colleagues to not “rush through” a farm bill and for ag groups to come together and prioritize goals for the upcoming farm bill.
A Kansas Republican says he wants to make sure crop insurance is protected if any kind of permanent disaster program is written into the upcoming farm bill.
Farmers have made significant progress in planting corn over the past week but remain well behind the pace in many areas, according to USDA’s weekly Crop Progress report.
This is the third part of a four-part series examining the promise of cover crops, the potential for them to meet the nation’s environmental goals that rest on their success, and the possible pitfalls facing policymakers.
A potential “climate-smart” label for food and USDA’s authority to fund large-scale pilot projects using the Commodity Credit Corporation was among the many issues addressed in nearly 400 comments submitted on USDA’s proposed Climate-Smart and Agroforestry Partnership Initiative.
A dozen major farm groups have jumped into the fray over conservation funding in the estimated $3.5 trillion reconciliation package Democrats plan to introduce in the Senate, calling for “increased investment in climate-smart agricultural practices that sequester carbon or reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”