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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
The Agriculture Department is accepting 3.4 million acres into the land-idling Conservation Reserve Program following the first general signup in four years.
The White House is asking Congress for $45.8 billion to cover the rising cost to the Agriculture Department and other departments and agencies of responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
Farmers who had crops damaged by drought or excessive moisture in 2018 or 2019 can start applying March 23 for disaster assistance authorized by Congress last year.
Producers in the Prairie Pothole region will soon be able to sign up for a pilot project included in the 2018 farm bill meant to encourage the planting of cover crops.
The Agriculture Department will provide larger disaster-aid payments for losses in 2018 than for 2019 and will offer prevent-plant bonus payments of up to 15% for farmers who were unable to seed crops this spring due to the heavy Midwest flooding, according to rules announced Monday.
USDA plans to re-open continuous signup for the Conservation Reserve Program next week, despite demands by House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson that the department delay enrollment.
Producers hampered by poor harvest weather conditions will have an additional 16 days to certify their 2018 crop production for Market Facilitation Program payments.
After a 35-day U.S. government shutdown, the longest in history, FSA employees who returned to their offices two days earlier than other government workers face a growing pile of loan applications.
