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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Bolstered by strong commodity prices, U.S. farm earnings should stay well above historic levels this year even as producers grapple with high production costs and the government’s pandemic relief phases out, the Agriculture Department reports.
The Democratic presidential candidates are rallying around a carbon tax as a central solution to climate change, but putting the idea into law will mean overcoming concerns of farm groups about the tax’s intended goal - raising the cost of fossil fuels.
