Articles Tagged with ''USDA''

Jenny Lester Moffitt, who served as undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs at USDA during the Biden administration, is moving to American Farmland Trust as senior fellow.

Donald Trump launches his second term with what is promised to be a blizzard of executive orders and mass deportations, while Brooke Rollins gets her confirmation hearing before the Senate Agriculture Committee. She's expected to face questioning on a wide range of issuses, including biofuels and avian flu.

The International Fresh Produce Association will add Alexis Taylor to its staff as chief global policy officer after she completes her tenure as undersecretary of trade and foreign agricultural affairs at USDA. 

Richard Fordyce, a Missouri farmer who ran USDA’s Farm Service Agency during the first Trump administration, has been picked to be the department’s undersecretary for farm production and conservation.

Dairy producers have approved a series of modifications to federal milk marketing orders, including reversing a change to milk pricing that was made in the 2018 farm bill, USDA announced Thursday.

USDA is making it easier for growers to qualify for a new biofuel tax credit by increasing the number of eligible crops and climate-smart farming practices and dropping a bundling requirement.

Anti-hunger and food industry groups are readying to push back on efforts to restrict certain foods in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program given the rise of Make America Healthy Again rhetoric in Congress and the Trump administration. 

Repeated findings of inadequate sanitation practices like meat and fat residue on equipment and structural problems contributed to the listeria outbreak from products made at a Boar’s Head facility in Virginia last summer, according to a USDA report. 

A bevy of President-elect Donald Trump’s top selections for his cabinet get confirmation hearings this week, including former Rep. Lee Zeldin, picked to head the EPA, and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, selected for the dual role of Interior secretary and White House energy czar. The Biden administration also is expected to release new regulatory actions in its final week.

The Treasury Department on Friday proposed long-awaited guidance for the new  biofuel tax credit known as 45Z, appearing to limit the use of imported cooking oil but omitting key eligibility requirements for agriculture-based feedstocks.