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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, May 01, 2024
Specialty crop growers anticipate labor costs, which already represent more than 50% of their production costs, to grow 10-30% over the next three to five years. They’re increasingly turning to automation as a solution, according to a new specialty crop automation report released by the Western Growers.
Groups representing producers of U.S. row crops are far from united on what Congress should do to improve commodity programs, even as the House and Senate Agriculture committees look to start writing a new farm bill in coming weeks.
House GOP leaders, struggling to shore up Republican support for their debt-ceiling bill, gave in and moved to preserve some, but not all, of the biofuel provisions that would be repealed or scaled back by the legislation.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson is leaving the door open to trying to tighten SNAP eligibility rules in the farm bill if Republicans fail to get a debt-limit deal with President Joe Biden to expand the program’s work requirements.
The California Legislature is considering changes to the state's Low Carbon Fuel Standard that would cap the credits and cut guarantees for methane digesters. Despite a fierce backlash from industry groups, the environmental justice argument is gaining traction among California regulators and Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration.
A proposed agreement is designed to force EPA to provide more oversight over animal feeding operations and discharge permits in Pennsylvania, but a former agency attorney is skeptical of the agreement's final impact on the enforcement of the Clean Water Act.
Farm groups are calling for Agriculture Department loan program payment rates to be increased in the upcoming farm bill, while agency officials look at other ways to make the programs more accessible and flexible for producers.
The Japanese tariff on U.S. beef has dropped gradually from 38.5% in 2019 to 23.3% this year as a result of the three-year-old U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement, a prime example of the kind of free trade agreement the U.S. ag sector and some lawmakers say they want to see replicated.
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