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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, September 22, 2024
The Congressional Budget Office is sticking with a cost estimate for USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation spending authority that is far lower than congressional Republicans need to fund their farm bill proposals. Meanwhile, a leading economist estimates the impact of a base update on land values.
Farm groups have joined with the oil industry and independent truck drivers in filing a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s new emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles.
The Congressional Budget Office is due to release its latest 10-year estimates for farm programs today. The new baseline isn’t expected to have any direct impact on the current farm bill discussions, but it could show whether lawmakers will face even greater budget challenges in the next Congress if they don’t get the legislation done this year.
Anti-hunger groups are praising Stacy Dean, deputy undersecretary for USDA’s food, nutrition and consumer services, following news of her planned departure in July.
USDA is awarding $50 million to farms, ranches, labor contractors and other entities to hire and retain farmworkers, including by encouraging the legal import of laborers from Central America.
A farm bill doesn’t appear to be headed anywhere in the Senate, even though Ag Committee Republicans have now outlined their proposal. Senate Ag Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., doesn’t think the House Ag Committee’s bill can pass the House and fears a Senate bill could face the same fate, she says on this week’s Agri-Pulse Newsmakers.
Former President Donald Trump made a case to House Republicans for higher tariffs on China to protect U.S. industries, lawmakers said after the meeting with him on Capitol Hill Thursday.
Two major farm groups are joining the American Petroleum Institute to challenge EPA 2027-2032 tailpipe emissions standards that they argue are essentially an electric vehicle mandate.