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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
A Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Jim McGovern, drew cheers at a meeting of anti-hunger activists in February when he called for stopping the farm bill if it’s unfair to nutrition assistance programs.
If recent reports about the Trump administration considering sending biofuel program reform efforts back to the legislative branch turn out to be true, don’t expect ethanol supporters to be too disappointed.
With participation lagging, the National Agricultural Statistics Service is redoubling its efforts to encourage farmers and ranchers to answer questions for the 2017 Agricultural Census.
Some invasive species usually try and settle down, start a large family and stake a claim on some of California's endless buffet of agricultural crops, becoming the bane of farmers and researchers.
An Arkansas ban on the use of dicamba for crop protection during certain months this year will continue, with the exception of six farmers who won the right to do so.
U.S. farm banks increased agricultural lending by nearly 6 percent, or $5.9 billion, to $106 billion in 2017, according to the American Bankers Association’s annual Farm Bank Performance Report.
USDA today published in the Federal Register a final decision to establish an Federal Milk Marketing Order that would cover the entire Golden State. Before it goes into effect, however, the plan must be approved by producers.
U.S. farmers will plant more soybeans than corn this year – for the first time since 1983 – but acreage for both crops will be smaller than in 2017, according to USDA’s Prospective Plantings report.
The omnibus funding bill for 2018 that President Donald Trump signed into law last week specifically acknowledges “the importance of the deployment of wireless broadband services in rural areas of the United States.”
Capital gains tax breaks could inject trillions into the nation’s struggling low-income rural and urban communities, thanks to new “Opportunity Zones” tax provisions.