Items Tagged with 'Sen. Pat Roberts'

A fiscal 2022 funding bill for USDA and the Food and Drug Administration is headed to the full Senate Appropriations Committee. The bill, which was approved Monday evening by the committee’s Agriculture subcommittee, includes about $7 billion in supplemental assistance for farmers who have been affected by drought and other natural disasters.

Sen. Pat Roberts' chief of staff steps down and Michael Torrey Associates hires two new staff members.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer confirmed today he will carry out President Donald Trump’s threat to increase the tariff rate on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods.

In his kickoff speech at the outset of the 2019 American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual convention, AFBF President Zippy Duvall listed a laundry list of reasons why last year was one to forget in production agriculture, but said it was a banner year for Farm Bureau’s lobbying efforts.