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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, May 17, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted plenty of commodity markets and some of the most glaring examples occurred in the dairy industry. Now, the industry is looking to recoup losses and prevent the problem from recurring, but dairy leaders are far from united on the path forward.
Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat who’s one of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s newest members, is jumping into a range of farm policy issues, including pushing for as much as $20 billion a year in new conservation spending to be part of an upcoming climate and infrastructure package.
Five white farmers are claiming the $4 billion debt forgiveness program being implemented by USDA is unconstitutional, in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Wisconsin.
The Environmental Protection Agency must revoke all tolerances for chlorpyrifos or modify them to meet a federal food safety law, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
Mexico’s top court issued a five-to-zero ruling on Wednesday that would allow the Mexican government to follow through on a promise to lift a barrier to imports of U.S. potatoes, according to a statement released by the U.S.-based National Potato Council.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai promised lawmakers Wednesday that work has begun to work out trade disputes with the European Union and the UK to create what President Joe Biden calls “a united front of U.S. allies,” but she largely left questions about China unanswered as the U.S. continues to study the situation.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan says the agency can be expected to play a critical role in the Biden administration’s goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions but needs a financial boost to be in “fighting shape.”
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, with backing from former President Trump’s immigration adviser, Stephen Miller, alleges in a lawsuit that the new $4 billion debt relief plan for minority farmers unconstitutionally excludes white producers.
President Joe Biden today is proposing a $1.8 billion package of spending on child nutrition and other social needs that would be paid for in part by new taxes on inherited assets. The president’s plan promises to protect family-run farms from the new taxes as long as the farms stay in operation.
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