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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, September 21, 2024
The Agriculture Department is partnering with 31 state attorneys general to look more closely into anticompetitive practices in the food and agriculture sectors as part of a broader White House initiative to promote marketplace competition.
A lawmaker who’s close to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., says Republicans are trying to work through potentially thorny issues with the farm bill before it gets to the floor.
House Democrats are charting a new path to writing a farm bill this year with the formation a special leadership-appointed task force that’s working on recommendations for the legislation.
Summit Carbon Solutions has voluntary agreements in hand from scores of landowners as it works to secure a path for the first carbon capture pipeline in the Midwest, but the company is also preparing for a hearing next month to push for the use of eminent domain in Iowa.
There were fears that even though U.S. ag exports to China were rising after the countries agreed to a trade war détente during the Trump administration, the U.S. might never recover its pre-trade war share of China’s imports.
A growing coalition wants the Biden administration to leverage its $8.8 billion in federal food purchasing to promote racial equity, animal welfare, environmental sustainability and local food procurement.
Reducing food waste can shrink agriculture’s environmental footprint while helping to feed the hungry and conserve resources, but since food waste occurs across all sectors of the food chain, reducing it will require coordination and funding.
A new study from USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service shows SARS-CoV-2, the virus at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic, was "transmitted from humans to deer, mutated, and potentially transmitted back to humans."