Items Tagged with 'Sen. Chuck Grassley'

For some small farmers, the dual use of land for agriculture and solar energy generation, known as is gaining steam as a path to future profitability. But the industry is still in its infancy.

Lawmakers are starting their long summer recess, leaving behind fresh questions about the timeline for a new farm bill.

The debt limit agreement between President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has one more step to go before heading to the White House.

Judith McMeekin has announced she is going to retire from the Food and Drug Administration on June 30 and the American Peanut Council has hired Tracy Grondine as vice president of communications.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, believes lawmakers will consider some curbs on the agriculture secretary’s authority to spend from USDA’s Commodity Credit Corp. account.

Lawmakers on both sides of Capitol Hill have spent the past couple of years working to rein in the market power of the four largest beef packers. But time may well have run out on two major reform bills.

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers, which represents John Deere and other ag equipment firms, is throwing its support behind an effort to pour federal money into rebuilding the U.S. semiconductor industry.

The House Rules Committee has teed up a package of spending bills for floor debate this week.