Items Tagged with 'Congressional Budget Office'

Base acreage for corn is expected to increase by 18%, or about 16.8 million acres, under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, according to new Congressional Budget Office estimates. Soybean acreage, meanwhile, is projected otherwise to grow by 11.6 million acres, or 22%.

Conservation programs will get a boost under the reconciliation bill recently signed into law, but the rescission of around $14 billion in near-term IRA funding means signups for the next few fiscal years will be smaller than expected.

Senate Republicans hope to find out today whether they can salvage a key cost-cutting provision in their budget reconciliation bill.

Senate Republicans are out with the agriculture provisions of their budget reconciliation bill. The farm program provisions track closely with what’s in the One Big Beautiful Bill passed by the House in May, including increases in reference prices and authorization for a voluntary base update.

Farm groups are preparing for the worst in a report due this week from the Make America Healthy Again Commission. A source familiar with the report tells Agri-Pulse’s Rebekah Alvey that it touches on pesticide usage, although the final language is subject to change.

California passes a poop milestone, thanks to dairy * Banning a car ban * A red herring in the tunnel * Ag groups back ESA tweaks

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Saturday that the Biden administration has no plans to intervene to stop a dockworker strike. He also told reporters lawmakers need to “get practical” in their farm bill negotiations.

The House Agriculture Committee’s farm bill would boost the federal budget deficit by $33 billion over 10 years, according to an official cost estimate released Friday by the Congressional Budget Office, which refused to change its stance on a budget offset intended to fund changes to commodity programs.