Articles Tagged with ''Economic Research Service''

Democrats tee up debates on farm, environmental funding and policy

06/05/19 6:52 AM By Philip Brasher, Steve Davies, and Ben Nuelle

House Democrats are rolling out a series of fiscal 2020 spending bills that reject a range of White House spending cuts while challenging key Trump administration priorities and regulatory rollbacks at USDA, EPA and other agencies.

Washington Week Ahead: House set to clear long-awaited disaster aid

06/02/19 10:00 AM By Philip Brasher

House Democratic leaders look to finally push through on Monday a $19.1 billion disaster relief bill that a handful of conservative Republicans blocked from passing while most lawmakers were out of town for the 10-day Memorial Day recess.

Opinion: Time for USDA and Agricultural Research Community to Unite to Tackle Food and Ag Challenges

05/29/19 11:40 AM By Gale Buchanan

The USDA proposal to relocate the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the Economic Research Service (ERS) out of the nation’s capital and to realign the ERS to report to the Office of the Chief Economist rather than to the Undersecretary for Research, Education, and Economics (REE) has created an unfortunate conflict between the US Department of Agriculture and the agricultural research community. While I am a retiree and speak only for myself, this is a fight that need not and should not be.

USDA spending bill would block research agency relocations

05/22/19 12:22 PM By Philip Brasher

House Democrats proposed a fiscal 2020 spending bill for the Agriculture Department and Food and Drug Administration that would block the Trump administration from relocating two research agencies out of the nation’s capital.

Washington Week Ahead: Trump pushing lawmakers to reach aid deal

05/12/19 10:00 AM By Philip Brasher

The House and Senate are pursuing a deal on disaster aid with just two weeks left until the self-imposed deadline of Memorial Day and little sign of progress on the major reasons for the impasse.

ERS employees vote overwhelmingly to unionize

05/09/19 3:46 PM By Steve Davies

Employees of USDA's Economic Research Service voted 138-4 for union representation even as their department continues to proceed with plans to move ERS and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture out of the nation's capital.

USDA names finalists for new ERS, NIFA home

05/03/19 3:50 PM By Steve Davies

USDA has announced the finalists for the new homes of the Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).

Perdue at House Ag Approps hearing 4-9-19

Perdue signals flexibility on SNAP, defends agency moves

04/10/19 6:40 AM By Philip Brasher

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue suggested to lawmakers that his department could soften the definition of able-bodied adults who are subject to food stamp work requirements, but he declined to budge from a USDA reorganization plan to relocate two research agencies out of the nation's capital.

Trump budget reopens farm bill to slash spending

03/11/19 2:24 PM By Philip Brasher

Less than three months after signing the 2018 farm bill, President Donald Trump proposed a fiscal 2020 budget that would reopen the law to slash crop insurance and tighten commodity program eligibility limits while making deep cuts in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

USDA: Farm earnings to rise 10 percent in 2019

03/06/19 2:21 PM By Spencer Chase

Net farm income should increase by about 10 percent in 2019 but will still be well below the average level for the past two decades and far under recent peaks, according to USDA's latest forecast.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: April 26, 2024: USDA Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Lester Moffitt on bird flu, competition

USDA Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Lester Moffitt oversees the Agricultural Marketing Service and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. She joins us to discuss the latest on the bird flu outbreak and how USDA is responding.

Then, Michael Dykes with the International Dairy Foods Association and Fred Gingrich with the American Association of Bovine Practitioners join to chat more about the impact the bird flu has had on the dairy industry.

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