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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, May 09, 2024
Agri-Pulse Audio Web Page Senate Republicans proposed a long-term, but essentially toothless plan to balance the budget in part with cuts in food stamps and agriculture spending.
More than 140 food and agriculture groups are warning House leaders that legislation requiring employers to use E-Verify to check the immigration status of workers would have a 0devastating impact0 on farms.
The Obama administration is promising to rewrite its proposed Clean Water Act rule to ensure that farmers have clear guidance about what streams; ditches and ponds will be regulated.
Leaders of key Senate committees are asking the Obama administration to allow more time for public comment on recommendations for the 2015 dietary guidelines.
WASHINGTON, March 10, 2015 -15472; Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, says he wants to have legislation ready by the beginning April to provide the president with fast-track trade authority. Hatch and the committee-15472;s r
A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has spread to Arkansas, the third state where the virus has been reported in the Mississippi flyway, all on turkey farms.
The new farm programs for grain and oilseed growers will pay them up to $7 billion annually over the next few years, surpassing what they would have received through the old system of direct payments, according to new forecasts released Monday.