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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Irrigation expert Atef Swelam has joined the staff at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) as the director of Kearney and West Side Research and Extension Centers.
Laura Daniel-Davis has a new role within the Interior Department and a lawmaker with a longtime focus on trade and agricultural issues announces his retirement.
One year after the first White House hunger conference in 50 years, there are wins as well as areas of needed focus to meet the goals laid out by government and private entities.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., said he believes if a farm bill is passed before the end of the calendar year it will avoid any “major disruption.”
Lawmakers are inching ever closer to a government shutdown. It’s true that Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year, is still two weeks away, but House conservatives continue to play hardball with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
Bipartisan momentum is building to scale up and tweak the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) and enhance the offering of the healthy incentive pilots funded at $20 million in the 2008 farm bill.