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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, May 17, 2024
UN World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley talks to Agri-Pulse about how he won over skeptical lawmakers and worked with the Trump and Biden administrations to build the world's largest food aid effort and address a series of crises.
The renewable diesel boom has fueled a surge in expected soybean crushing capacity and a need for more production of the crop, though the EPA’s proposed Renewable Fuel Standard volumes and declining credit values for California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard may dampen the fledgling industry’s ambitions.
As Congress begins to craft the 2023 Farm Bill, USDA Undersecretary for Research, Education and Economics Chavonda Jacobs-Young explained the need to invest in research infrastructure and workforce development and make research more digestible and usable to agricultural producers.
Leon Panetta, a former CIA director and secretary of defense under President Barack Obama, delivers a forceful call for both political parties to work together to bolster U.S. agriculture and address the nation’s fiscal problems.
A monthly survey of how farmers and ranchers view the rural economy was unchanged in November as producers digested the results of the midterm elections.
The Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service will publish language in the Federal Register Wednesday, a move welcomed by the industry and Capitol Hill.
Communities across the country stand to benefit from Tuesday’s announcement of Agriculture Department funding aimed at improving the infrastructure and business climate in rural areas.
Hundreds of agricultural organizations – including one that had stopped short of supporting a previous compromise – are pressing Senate leaders to make time for legislation that would address farm labor before adjourning for the year.
The lack of strong, defined leadership of the Food and Drug Administration’s human foods program has hindered the agency’s mission, says a report that is expected to shape FDA reform efforts.