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Farm Hands on the Potomac: NPB makes leadership changes

01/22/20 6:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

The National Pork Board makes new leadership changes and CHS has a new executive VP.

Anti-hunger groups warn farm bill writers against SNAP cuts

02/28/18 6:50 AM By Philip Brasher

Anti-hunger activists have a clear message to the House and Senate Agriculture committees as they start writing the new farm bill: Don’t mess with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Senate budget spares farm bill

09/29/17 2:20 PM By Philip Brasher

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2017 - Republicans released a fiscal 2018 budget resolution that would clear the way for $1.5 trillion in tax cuts while requiring no reduction in farm bill spending.

Senate Ag leaders: Keep the farm bill together

03/08/17 1:02 PM By Philip Brasher

WASHINGTON, Mar. 8, 2017 - A new battle is brewing in Congress over ways to push unemployed, work-capable food stamp recipients into jobs.

Study finds link between farm subsidies, food prices

03/05/17 3:52 PM By Philip Brasher

WASHINGTON, Mar. 8, 2017 - Does subsidizing farmers lower food costs? Modern farm programs aren’t supposed to affect farmers’ production decisions, and it’s been hard for policy makers to argue that farm programs save consumers money.

Julie Anna Potts, North American Meat Institute

This week’s Open Mic guest is Julie Anna Potts, president and CEO of the North American Meat Institute. Few segments of the food industry were forced to adapt as quickly to the COVID-19 pandemic to meet consumer demand as members of the North American Meat Institute. Now, Potts says, the meat industry is looking forward to a new normal and embracing new challenges including a court challenge to California’s Proposition 12 ballot initiative that threatens to wreak havoc on interstate commerce of meat. Potts says resolving labor issues remains a top priority for the meat industry as well as securing the safety of their existing workers from COVID-19.

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Meet the Farm Hand

04.09.2021

Meet the Farm Hand: Autumn Price, Land O'Lakes

Autumn Price discusses her Georgia roots and explains the journey she took to come to D.C. She also reflects on the lessons she learned while working on the Senate Ag Committee, the story of how she and her husband first met, the ‘grain glitch,’ and even shares her most embarrassing moment.

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