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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Agri-Pulse is pleased to announce that Philip Brasher will be promoted to Executive Editor, expanding his role in the company’s management and strategy.
Pat Roberts, the first lawmaker to chair both the House and Senate agriculture committees, will retire at the end of his current term rather than run for reelection in 2020.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said USDA developed evaluation criteria for interested parties who wish to house the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA).
President Trump nominated Heath Tarbert to be a commissioner and chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. If confirmed, he would succeed Chris Giancarlo as chairman of the U.S. derivatives regulators.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is leaving his position by the end of the year as he faces a growing list of investigations into his travel and political activity during his time.
Funeral services are planned for Saturday for Bob Bergland, a northern Minnesota farmer who served as President Jimmy Carter’s secretary of agriculture from 1977 to 1981.
Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue has tapped Matt Lohr to lead the Natural Resources Conservation Service, putting the Virginia farmer in charge of the Department of Agriculture’s conservation efforts.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to become USDA’s top scientist assured senators he accepts the scientific consensus on climate change and said more research is needed to help U.S. agriculture adapt.
Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith won Tuesday's runoff election for U.S. Senate from Mississippi, defeating Democrat Mike Espy by 54 to 46 percent of the votes tallied last night.