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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, May 05, 2024
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2017 - President Donald Trump is back in Washington today after a two-day trip to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where he spent the weekend with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, playing golf and talking policy.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2017 – The House Agriculture Committee this week begins laying the groundwork for writing a new farm bill, while Senate Republicans gear up for a fight over another cabinet nominee important to agriculture, Andrew Puzder, President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Labor Department.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2017 - As Congress prepares to write a new farm bill, most of the discussion among traditional farm groups has focused on finding more money to help milk producers and cotton growers and to shore up the Agriculture Risk Coverage program. But some Democrats are looking to shift more money into programs that help smaller farms and organic producers.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2017 - The departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services should be more transparent about how they choose members of the committee that develops the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine said in a report released today.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2017 – House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway, R-Texas, today announced subcommittee assignments for the 115th Congress.
January 24, 2017 - Activity in the hallways of USDA’s D.C. headquarters is still muted, but Trump administration officials are starting to fill up the political-appointee offices. New faces in the communications department, Rural Development and other agencies are beginning to filter in.
