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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
President Donald Trump has accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt, the embattled EPA administrator under fire for a host of ethical and spending concerns.
A little-noticed provision in the 2017 tax reform law could threaten the non-profit status of rural electric cooperatives if they use federal disaster aid or take advantage of a new initiative to expand broadband service.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue continues his “Back to Our Roots” tour this week with stops in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Alaska where he’ll meet with local farmers, producers and foresters.
In Kansas, the cattle industry and its allies in state government and academia have teamed up to launch a new offensive – the Cattle Trace project – to achieve a truly comprehensive national cattle traceability system.
U.S. farmers are planting fewer acres with corn and soybeans this year, while sowing more wheat, cotton and sorghum, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service said in an annual report.
Leaders of the Senate Agriculrure Committee are working this week to protect their farm bill from floor amendments that could cut crop insurance or other key programs.
The House and Senate Agriculture committees faced the tough task of squeezing existing programs to find money to pay for other programs that the 2014 farm bill will leave unfunded when it expires Sept. 30.
The opioid crisis is putting pressure on state foster care systems already at or near capacity, and taxing limited government resources, according to a report by The Hill newspaper.
The White House criticized the Senate farm bill for not tightening work requirements for food stamp recipients and omitting regulatory reform proposals, but the administration notably stopped short of threatening a veto of the legislation.