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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, May 08, 2024
More than 50 organizations representing a variety of energy, agriculture, business, transportation and real estate stakeholders are urging Congress to approve a multi-year extension of a series of expired tax benefits, including the $1-a-gallon credit that subsidizes biodiesel, before the end of the year.
In a development with major implications for the next farm bill, House Republicans inserted provisions in a $81 billion disaster aid package to make cotton growers eligible for the Price Loss Coverage Program and expand an insurance program for dairy producers.
Congressional Republicans are poised to send their historic package of individual and business tax cuts to President Trump's desk before Christmas and also plan to pass a new stopgap funding bill that could include disaster aid to growers hammered by this year's hurricanes.
The Federal Communication Commission on Thursday voted to end what its Republican members called the “heavy-handed” Obama-administration net neutrality rules, a move that critics say will leave poorer, often rural communities at a disadvantage when it comes to competing in the digital age.
USDA's Risk Management Agency is eliminating the 10-percent buyup option for prevented planting coverage, picking up an idea that was proposed by the Office of Management and Budget during the Obama administration but never carried out by the department.
Missouri and a group of allied states have launched another legal battle to get rid of California’s egg-marketing regulations, only this time they’ve filed directly with the Supreme Court and with more ammunition.
The National Pork Board (NPB) is pointing to the FDA’s recent Report on Antimicrobials Sold or Distributed for Use in Food Producing Animals as evidence that the nation’s 60,000 pig farmers are doing what’s right on the farm for people, pigs and the planet when it comes to their commitment to antibiotic stewardship.
USDA has cleared the state of Arizona to test a program aimed at limiting fraud and reducing illegal trafficking of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program electronic benefit (EBT) cards.
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