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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Hundreds of interest groups, trade associations, environmentalists and even a few farmers are submitting their ideas for a new farm bill to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees. Not to be outdone, representatives of key California departments recently submitted their own 2023 farm bill recommendations in a letter to chairpersons and ranking members.
Writing a new farm bill in 2023 will require investing countless hours in educating over 200 new members of Congress and also may mean navigating fights over spending, according to lawmakers and trade association leaders advocating on behalf of the crop insurance industry.
Every farm bill has its own set of challenges but writing the 2023 farm bill could be made more difficult with so many relatively new members of Congress expecting to make policy changes, say former top aides to the Senate Agriculture Committee.
One of the newest entrants in the quest for more sustainable agriculture is not very well known in agricultural circles but with Mineral "graduating" from X - The Moonshot Factory, that may be about to change
Industry analysts agree that biologicals will continue to play a larger role in agriculture around the globe, although they may differ on some definitions and expected market size.
UN World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley talks to Agri-Pulse about how he won over skeptical lawmakers and worked with the Trump and Biden administrations to build the world's largest food aid effort and address a series of crises.
