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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Farmers who grow the crops being hammered the hardest by commodity market declines are hitting Capitol Hill this week, accompanied by ag bankers and Farm Credit lenders, to make a last-ditch push for a new farm bill.
In this opinion piece, Jon Doggett, former CEO of the National Corn Growers Association, responds to a previous op-ed by Kip Tom and expresses concern about the impact of Donald Trump's policy positions on agriculture.
Commodity groups are mounting a push to convince the Commerce department to limit the potential tariffs it could place on imports of herbicide ingredient 2,4-D from China and India as a result of an investigation into allegations that imports from these countries are being sold in the U.S. at “less than fair value.”
Washington veteran Eric Steiner will join Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Matz’s (OFW) Government Relations’ team as a senior policy advisor. The Agriculture Department announced senior appointments and promotions across the agency, including: Cindy Long, Sean Babington, and Eric Deeble. CoBank named; Sean Burke; as chief financial officer. He will lead the cooperative bank’s finance group. Animal Health Institute president and CEO Mathews will retire at the end of 2024.
Donald Trump picked as his running mate Ohio Sen. JD Vance, a populist firebrand whose views align with Trump's protectionist "America First" trade and economic policies, and delegates to the Republican National Convention quickly ratified the choice by acclamation on Monday.
Every summer, the next generation of staffers, analysts, lobbyists and communications specialists comes to D.C. This is the second part of two-part series on the interns in congressional offices and farm-related organizations in Washington this summer.
Stacy Dean, deputy undersecretary of agriculture for food, nutrition and consumer services, will step down from her position in July. She led the Biden administration's update of the Thrifty Food Plan and was nominated twice to be undersecretary but the Senate returned her nomination both times.
Farm groups have joined with the oil industry and independent truck drivers in filing a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s new emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles.
The partisan jockeying on the farm bill continues. House Ag Democrats have rescheduled a meeting with Senate Ag Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow for Wednesday.