Articles Tagged with ''Farm Bill''

The House Agriculture Committee unveiled a draft farm bill Friday that would revamp a key international food aid program, boost risk management options for specialty crop growers and nullify California's controversial Proposition 12 standards for animal welfare. The bill also would address pesticide labeling and raise USDA loan limits.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is headlining the cattle industry’s annual convention, CattleCon, today in Nashville, Tennessee.

The new year is a week old and the window for Congress to tackle pressing U.S. agriculture legislation is already rapidly narrowing.

House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., is taking issue with suggestions that the days of full, five-year farm bills may be over.

There’s a plan to unveil a package to rebuild U.S. beef herds, Trump administration officials say.

A coalition of farmers and food companies launched the American Meat Producers Association to defend state animal welfare laws like California’s Proposition 12, complicating efforts by House Ag Committee Republicans to include federal preemption in an upcoming farm bill.

Senate Republicans are proposing changes to a key biofuel tax credit and creation of a new $25 billion fund for rural hospitals in a bid to pass their sweeping budget reconciliation bill. The 940-page One Big Beautiful Bill Act also includes some easing of new restrictions on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

House Ag Republicans are looking at including some of the commodity and crop insurance proposals from the farm bill that passed out of committee last year into reconciliation, committee chair Glenn Thompson told a group of agricultural journalists on Tuesday.

Tax and spending cuts are at the top of the to-do list for congressional Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump. But there are a broad array of other issues in play that are critical to food and agriculture, from farm bill and the next dietary guidelines to regulations for pesticides and gene-edited crops, and the future of the Biden administration's climate policies.

In this opinion piece, Louisiana row-crop farmer David Smith says Congress urgently needs to pass a new farm bill that adequately funds conservation programs.