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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, May 02, 2024
Citing the crisis in Ukraine, the American Farm Bureau Federation and several food and feed processing groups appealed to the Biden administration to let farmers plant crops on prime farmland that’s idled under the Conservation Reserve Program.
The U.S. Agency for International Development and State Department are dispatching $54 million in food, water, hygiene supplies, blankets and other emergency goods to Ukrainians trying to survive the invasion of Russian troops.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is in Jefferson City, Mo., today to announce that USDA is ready to start taking applications for demonstration projects to help the department develop “climate-smart” products.
The fate of a key cattle market reform proposal is at stake as the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association kicks off its annual convention today in Houston.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and President Biden’s ports envoy, John Porcari, will be discussing the ongoing supply chain crunch at a webinar Monday sponsored by Agri-Pulse.
President Joe Biden has announced his intent to appoint seven Department of Agriculture regional positions and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has filled four senior staff positions.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack confirms that USDA is expecting to spend about $1 billion from the Commodity Credit Corp. for developing climate-smart agricultural commodities.
The White House is doubling down on blaming meatpackers for higher food prices. White House press secretary Jen Psaki was pressed at a news conference Tuesday to say how corporate greed had caused inflation. She immediately cited the “greed of meat conglomerates.”
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says his three-day trip to the international climate conference in Glasgow showed the importance that agriculture will play in the Biden administration’s plans to address climate change.