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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Producers in the Southern U.S. hope a new 2018 farm bill pilot program will help reduce feral swine populations, which cause an estimated $1.5 billion in damage every year in over 30 states.
The latest forecast from the University of Missouri’s Food and Agriculture Policy Research Institute projects farm earnings will be lower this year than what USDA economists are expecting.
A new climate policy priority document from the Sustainable Food Policy Alliance seeks certainty on a carbon pricing system, but stops short of endorsing any one approach.
A bipartisan, bicameral contingent of lawmakers are calling on congressional appropriators to support the Navigation and Ecosystem Restoration Program in upcoming report language.
The Agriculture Department this week releases the eagerly anticipated 2017 Census of Agriculture, which will provide fresh clues to consolidation trends in farming and measure the growth of small-scale and urban production and beginning farmers.
Some 25 states are at risk for moderate to major flooding through May, including Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska, in a region where floodwaters last month already swamped millions of acres of prime farmland and whole communities.
The Farm Credit Administration will issue guidance as soon as next week to system institutions on lending to producers who are clamoring to get financing for industrial hemp, but the commodity’s future remains clouded by regulatory hurdles.
The public trust doctrine, an old, rarely used but potentially powerful legal weapon, is being employed to try to force Iowa to curb pollution from farm runoff.
Fifty-two percent of producers nationwide are less optimistic about their farm’s financial future compared to 2018, according to this month's Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer.