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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, March 29, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a range of mitigation measures to protect 27 endangered species the agency says are “particularly vulnerable” to the effects of pesticides.
We’re still months away from seeing a new farm bill on the House and Senate farm bill, but ag groups could get a look as soon as next month at the challenges they may face in protecting crop insurance and other programs.
USDA has tentatively chosen 50 projects to receive $300 million designed to “help improve access to land, capital, and markets for underserved farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners,” the department said Thursday.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers are introducing legislation today to ensure the government keeps using U.S. commodities to provide food aid around the world. About half the funds for the Food for Peace program are currently used to purchase and deliver U.S. farm goods.
The Fish and Wildlife Service proposed Wednesday to restore automatic protections for species listed as “threatened," as the Biden administration moved to roll back a Trump-era overhaul of the way the Endangered Species Act is implemented.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, are proposing a bill requiring the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to review foreign entities’ land purchases or leases exceeding $4 million or 320 acres of land over the past three years and adding the Agriculture Secretary as a member of the panel.
A European Commission (EC) draft proposal could lead to a loosening of regulations long criticized by plant breeders as inhospitable to new genetic engineering techniques such as gene editing.
Farmers going through difficult times financially would have fewer options for assistance if House Republicans’ spending plan for fiscal 2024 were to become law.