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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Ukraine’s ability to keep exporting wheat, corn and other ag commodities under the threatened Black Sea Grain Initiative will be a major focus when world ag leaders meet later this week in Japan for a summit ofG7 agriculture ministers, says USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, who will be attending.
The leader of the Environmental Protection Agency made a pitch for additional resources to bring safer and more effective pesticides to market, and defended his agency from criticism on a wide range of issues, in an appearance before the House Agriculture Committee Wednesday.
House Republicans proposed a plan Wednesday for raising the federal debt ceiling that would also expand work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to able-bodied adults as old as 55.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said Wednesday the debate over SNAP work requirements should take place during the farm bill debate, not as an issue for negotiations over the government’s debt ceiling.
In the coming weeks, House Republicans are pushing the debt ceiling debate front and center and want to include changes to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) work requirements in their proposal. Industry sources say the move could push back an already delayed 2023 farm bill negotiation timeline, while Democratic members see it as a non-starter.
Pending Treasury Department rules for a new biofuels tax credit could determine whether farmers can earn significant new income from conservation practices and whether ethanol can qualify as a feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel, a potentially massive new market.
Eastern European leaders have consistently supported Ukraine as it battles Russian forces, but they are struggling to maintain that united front as their farmers contend with Ukrainian grain that has flooded their domestic markets and depressed prices.
Proponents of conservation drainage management got a bit of good news recently about the $19.5 billion allocated in the Inflation Reduction Act: The Natural Resources Conservation Service said CDM practices could be eligible for some of that money.
Despite disappointing results in its first year, supporters of a program designed to get Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) shoppers to buy more low-fat and non-fat milk hope that an expansion of the program will yield better results and lay the groundwork for continued investment in the next farm bill.
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