Items Tagged with 'budget'

Agri-Pulse Daybreak: Budget process kicking off * Fortenberry resigning * USDA revises supermarket prices for 2022 upward * Ukraine gets new ag minister

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised budget calls for millions of dollars to support new farmers and ranchers. Specifically, it proposes $10 million for beginning farmer and rancher training and farm management apprenticeship programs, which is a new budget proposal but still less than some farm advocates were hoping.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan told Congress Wednesday he does not intend to go back to the Obama administration’s definition of Waters of the U.S.

Amid calls for agriculture to engage fully in the Biden administration’s climate change mitigation plans, the director of USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has outlined the agency’s priorities for funding and supporting public research.

Facing a $54.3 billion deficit, California lawmakers checked their “to do” list earlier this week and approved a new budget just ahead of the June 15 constitutional deadline.

Today, the USDA will receive the last expressions of interests from states hoping to become the new home for the Economic Research Service, currently located in Washington, DC.

Maybe it’s just my crystal ball that’s a little cloudy, but I think the future of CSP is a bit unclear as we move toward the next farm bill.

There is no excuse for the three-day shutdown caused by our non-functional Congress and White House.