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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, August 31, 2024
In this opinion piece, Jared Planz highlights reasons Congress should fully fund Farm Bill conservation programs, focusing on the soil-health benefits that help farmers keep their land in farming from one generation to the next.
In this opinion piece, Alston Horn with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation discusses the benefit of adding a program similar to the James River Buffer Program to the next farm bill.
A proposed agreement is designed to force EPA to provide more oversight over animal feeding operations and discharge permits in Pennsylvania, but a former agency attorney is skeptical of the agreement's final impact on the enforcement of the Clean Water Act.
Alyssa Charney now serves as the director for lands and climate-smart agriculture in the climate policy office at the White House and Adam Hodge will be moving to the National Security Council on a detailed assignment as the acting senior director for press and spokesperson.
The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to increase oversight of animal feeding operations in Pennsylvania, including potentially designating them as point sources that would require discharge permits under the Clean Water Act.
States in the Chesapeake Bay watershed must continue to focus on reducing agriculture’s impact on the estuary, a major environmental group said Thursday in its latest update on the bay’s health.
Proposed regulations that could require public corporations to start reporting on the greenhouse gas emissions in their supply chains would saddle producers with significant costs and threaten the privacy of farm data, according to an analysis by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Pennsylvania still has a long way to go in reducing nutrient pollution from its farms, jeopardizing the success of the federal-state “blueprint” for achieving restoration of the Chesapeake Bay, a new report from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation concludes.
Chuck Magro has been tapped to serve as the new CEO at Corteva and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation has selected Hilary Harp Falk as the organization’s next CEO and president.
Silvopasture, an historical practice that involves integrating trees into pasture-based systems for livestock, appears to be growing in popularity as farmers look for ways to help keep animals happy and healthy while maintaining or increasing revenue.