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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
WASHINGTON, March 29, 2017 - Chinese President Xi Jinping’s upcoming visit to the U.S. has buoyed hope among the American ag sector that the Trump administration can improve trade relations between the two countries.
WASHINGTON, March 29, 2017 - As the Trump administration prepares to execute its trade agenda through new deals or reworking pacts already on the books, agriculture is holding its collective breath.
WASHINGTON, March 28, 2017 - President Donald Trump signed a far-reaching Executive Order (EO) Tuesday designed to roll back many Obama-era energy regulations and create new American jobs in the energy sector.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 27, 2017 - Congressional Republicans are trying to pick up the pieces this week after the spectacular failure of their health care reform effort.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22, 2017 - Scott Graves, the former Republican staff director of the House Agriculture Committee who recently joined the law and lobbying firm, Williams & Jensen, has been named executive director of the American Association of Crop Insurers.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22, 2017 - President Donald Trump explained in his 1987 book The Art of the Deal that “my style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 17, 2017 - The Senate is finally starting to move on Sonny Perdue’s nomination to become agriculture secretary. Leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee announced last night that they will hold Perdue’s confirmation hearing next Thursday.
WASHINGTON, March 16, 2017 – The “skinny budget” proposal released today by the Trump administration would put the Environmental Protection Agency on a crash diet.
WASHINGTON, March 16, 2017 - President Trump is proposing to slash the Agriculture Department’s field staff and also make deep reductions in research, rural development and international food aid.
