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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
The House Agriculture Committee puts a focus this week on China and the potential threat it poses to U.S. agriculture, while Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack heads back to Capitol Hill to defend his spending priorities and policy implementation.
An Illinois Democrat says getting a bipartisan farm bill done this year is “critically important” and that she is optimistic Congress can pass new legislation before the September deadline included in last year's extension.
USDA’s undersecretary for farm production and conservation, Robert Bonnie, says the department is trying to be both “aggressive” and “smart” in getting Inflation Reduction Act funding out the door.
Lawmakers are going to be leaving a lot of money on the table – nearly $1.8 billion – if they can’t agree on putting Inflation Reduction Act conservation funding into a new farm bill.
National Farmers Union delegates this week debated a wide variety of policy reforms, including whether or not eligibility for commodity programs, crop and livestock insurance should be limited to small and mid-size farming operations.
President Joe Biden’s budget request for fiscal 2025 proposes new loan flexibilities for farmers and makes another stab at getting Congress to make permanent a $5-an-acre subsidy for cover crops while also boosting ag research and other climate-related spending.
President Joe Biden is due today to release his proposed budget for fiscal 2025, even though lawmakers are only halfway finished with finalizing their appropriations bills for FY24.
President Joe Biden is set to release his fiscal 2025 budget even as lawmakers are still trying to finish work on some of the biggest and most contentious of their FY24 spending bills.