Articles Tagged with ''Foreign Agricultural Service''

Robert Califf is one step closer to a second tenure as head of the Food and Drug Administration after the Senate voted 49-45 Monday evening to advance his nomination.

Robert Bonnie, USDA’s undersecretary for farm production and conservation, says the Farm Service Agency and Natural Resources Conservation Service are staffing up field offices as fast as possible as COVID infection rates drop.

Senate Democrats are nearing the end of their internal fight over whether to change the filibuster rules to pass elections legislation. The result is not in doubt, given that Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., remain steadfast in defending the filibuster.

Gerald Bange, who served 43 years at the Department of Agriculture, including 20 as chairman of the World Ag Outlook Board, died Thursday, Jan. 13.

The Agriculture Department's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is awarding over $200 million to over 60 U.S. agricultural organizations to "help expand commercial export markets for U.S. goods," the agency said.

A top member of the House Ag Committee and one of the more moderate Democrats in the chamber says she doesn’t expect $3.5 trillion to be the final figure for a reconciliation bill currently under consideration.

Dry weather and above normal temperatures are expected across the upper Midwest from September to November, according to the National Weather Service.

Daniel Whitley has been tapped to be the new administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service, Bianca Moebius-Clune will lead American Farmland Trust’s Farmers Combat Climate Change Initiative, and Hanna Abou-El-Seoud has been promoted to director of corporate affairs at Nestlé.

The House Agriculture Committee will vote next week on a bill that would extend a popular ag disaster program, WHIP+, for two years. Lawmakers have been working on revisions to the Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus, which provided assistance to producers for losses in 2018 and 2019.

The next leader of the Agriculture Department’s Foreign Agricultural Service was among a handful of staff announcements from Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack Wednesday morning.