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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, May 04, 2024
The House and Senate Agriculture Committees are still several months away from voting on a new farm bill, but the major issues in each of the 12 titles are coming into focus even as lawmakers continue offering new proposals they’d like to see included. Here is a summary of the issues in play as well as notable proposals lawmakers would like to see included in the bill.
Natural Resources Conservation Service offices in states like California are gearing up to take in a surge of Inflation Reduction Act funding centered around the conservation programs they operate.
Farmers and ranchers will receive increased help developing nutrient management plans with funding from the Inflation Reduction Act, the Agriculture Department announced Monday.
As Congress advances a massive climate and energy reconciliation package, a senior Republican on the House Ag Committee says he's worried about the bill's long-term ramifications for the farm bill and other ag policy efforts.
The Biden administration is looking to farmers to help alleviate global food shortfalls by planting winter wheat this fall on ground that’s coming out of the Conservation Reserve Program, but much of the acreage lies in states that are suffering from prolonged drought.
The House Agriculture Committee is split along partisan lines over a Democratic bill that would create a special investigator in the Agriculture Department to look into allegations of unfair practices by meat and poultry processors.
President Joe Biden’s proposed budget for fiscal 2023 that would boost Agriculture Department spending by 9%, including significant increases for agricultural research and conservation technical assistance and a new round of funding for rural broadband expansion.