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Balanced Reporting. Trusted Insights.
Monday, January 17, 2022
New developments in the long-running battle over livestock markets may force the American Farm Bureau Federation to rethink its support for a bipartisan bill to bring transparency to those markets.
What constitutes “critical habitat” for a species federally listed as threatened or endangered? And what exactly does “healthy” mean when it’s used on food packaging?
Sen. Joe Manchin is showing no sign of compromising on President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill, vital as it may be to the administration’s climate policy.
The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized biological evaluations concluding that three common herbicides can adversely affect endangered species or their habitats.
House Democrats are forging ahead with writing a massive new tax and spending package with major implications for the next farm bill as well as producers’ finances.
The Biden administration has been filling positions relatively quickly at departments and agencies other than USDA that have regulatory authority over agriculture, while some of Donald Trump’s nominees to similar positions ran into troubles during the confirmation process.
The Biden administration will replace Trump-era changes to Endangered Species Act regulations that farm and other business groups welcomed as inserting “common sense” into ESA implementation.
The federal agencies responsible for inspecting agricultural imports at national ports of entry lack sufficient staff and training, in part because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and have failed to document progress on their own strategic plan. These are among the findings of a Government Accountability Office report on imported agriculture inspections, released Tuesday.
The Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing federally protected status under the Endangered Species Act for two populations of the lesser prairie-chicken that occupy parts of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado.
Jewel Bronaugh’s nomination is headed to the Senate floor. The Senate Ag Committee used a voice vote Monday evening to send her nomination to be USDA’s next deputy secretary to the Senate floor after Bronaugh, currently the Virginia ag commissioner, took part in an April hearing.
