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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, May 01, 2024
An infectious disease that impacts major agricultural regions in the southwest is predicted to be a risk in a much greater section of the United States as the climate continues to change.
Senators pressed EPA Administrator Michael Regan to expand use of E15 in the nation’s fuel supply to combat rising energy prices, at a hearing before the Environment and Public Works Committee Wednesday.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan has asked the agency's ag advisory committee to evaluate EPA's policies and programs "at the nexus of agriculture and climate change.”
Publicly traded companies would have to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions from their operations and supply chains and also report progress being made toward achieving reductions, under a proposal released Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Biden administration is launching the application process for a $1 billion program that will test ways farms of all sizes can profit from the low-carbon commodities they produce through practices that cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Anaerobic digesters that take manure and turn it into biomethane for the transportation sector and other industrial uses are a key part of the dairy industry’s strategy to get to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Producers and landowners will be able to start signing up for the Conservation Reserve Program at the end of the month, USDA announced Monday, as the department tries to expand the acreage to reach the 2018 farm bill’s goal for fiscal 2022.
In this opinion piece, Britt Lundgren with Stonyfield Organic and Nathaniel Powell-Palm of Cold Springs Organics discuss how agriculture is uniquely positioned to help tackle climate change and that Build Back Better can help make that happen while delivering economic benefits to U.S. food businesses, farmers and rural communities across the country.
The Democratic-controlled House passes President Joe Biden’s $1.7 trillion Build Back Better bill that includes $82 billion in agriculture provisions aimed at accelerating an historic shift toward climate-related farming practices.
