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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, April 19, 2024
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.
The Biden administration has made its first appointments of state directors for the Agriculture Department's Farm Service Agency and Rural Development division.
The Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency announced Thursday it will be extending the application date for the Pandemic Livestock Indemnity Program (PLIP) to October 12 for livestock and poultry producers.
The Agriculture Department is accepting 2.8 million acres into the land-idling Conservation Reserve Program, well under the 4 million acres the Biden administration was aiming for as part of its effort to use farmers to help reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
Val Dolcini, a former Farm Service Agency administrator and California environmental official, will be the newest member of Syngenta's Washington office.
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack ripped into lawsuits challenging debt relief for minority producers in remarks released Wednesday, asking what those who are challenging the payments did to address previous instances of discrimination the program is meant to address.
USDA's Farm Service Agency recently announced a multiyear $10 million initiative aimed at quantifying the benefits of Conservation Reserve Program contracts.