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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
The National Alfalfa & Forage Alliance has chosen five research projects to be funded through the Alfalfa Checkoff, aimed at driving innovation and profitability in the alfalfa industry.
A quartet of pro-biofuel groups, frustrated with the Environmental Protection Agency’s use of waivers that exempt small refineries from certain biofuel blending requirements, have sued the agency in an effort to curb the practice.
The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved bills to fund the USDA, FDA and Army Corps of Engineers that steer clear of environmental issues addressed by the House’s versions of those same spending bills.
A Senate bill that would ease trucking requirements for livestock haulers has the backing of two major U.S. cattle groups and a bipartisan contingent of lawmakers.
A bill that President Donald Trump is expected to sign into law will soon give rural banks some relief from Dodd-Frank regulations that critics say have sometimes constrained agricultural lending.
The House and Senate Agriculture committees are setting up a likely battle over commodity payment limits after their respective farm bills get out of their respective chambers. The outcome could be a stalemate that leaves existing law in place.
The Senate Appropriations subcommittee advanced a fiscal 2019 spending bill for USDA and FDA that would provide $425 million in funding for rural broadband expansion to add to the $600 million that Congress provided for this year.
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