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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, November 08, 2024
President Biden and members of his cabinet, including Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, are fanning out across the country to promote the administration’s environmental record.
Thirty-one lawmakers spend their time outside of the nation’s capitol farming, ranching or running cattle operations, according to a new Congressional Research Service report.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is asking USDA to give poultry processors six more months to implement the department’s new regulations on producer contracts, but USDA says the requirements are "simple" and that companies don't need additional time.
The first thing U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack did after the U.S. lost its second USMCA dairy battle with Canada was vow to keep on fighting – reminiscent of statements released by U.S. lawmakers and U.S. dairy groups, but that fight may be at an end after two exhaustive legal fights that both ended in a decision by a three-member dispute panel.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is following the lead of some of the nation's most influential farm groups, which banded together earlier this month to ask the Commerce Department to reduce or eliminate the duty on key imports of phosphate fertilizers from Morocco.
Nine Democratic members of Congress – including four from the California delegation – are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to advance a rule that would allow electric vehicles to be part of the federal Renewable Fuel Standard.
Climate extremes and inadequate preparation for a winter deluge underline the challenge. But the fault lies with an inflexible process for updating pumping permits as the hydrology flips from drought to floods.
