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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is on Capitol Hill this week and reassured one key senator that he has an appreciation for U.S. agriculture.
William “Bill” Richards, a soil conservation pioneer who served as chief of USDA’s Soil Conservation Service (now Natural Resources Conservation Service) from 1990-1993 under President George H.W. Bush, died Tuesday. He was 93.
In this opinion piece, former Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., discusses the inaccuracies of the New York Times video series U.S. agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions.
The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is considering ways to promote a more widespread adoption of conservation tillage practices to reduce dust.
In this opinion piece, Greg Ibach, former Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs at USDA and currently with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, discusses the need for an outcome-based conservation system.
Agricultural lenders should design their loan programs to encourage farmers' adoption of farming practices resilient to the impacts of climate change, the Environmental Defense Fund says in a new report.
No-till farming increased yields consistently over about three decades on cropland in southwest Michigan, according to new research from Michigan State University.
