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Congressional negotiators face decisions on FY20 spending, policy

11/13/19 6:50 AM By Philip Brasher

House and Senate negotiators will have to sort through some sharply different priorities and spending targets for USDA and other departments and agencies important to agriculture.

Daybreak: Newsom vetoes CDFA-sponsored bill

10/15/19 12:17 AM By Brad Hooker

Food processors under blackouts * ‘Lot of work’ still on China deal

Buttigieg proposes repopulating rural areas with immigrants

08/13/19 4:20 PM By Philip Brasher and Delaney Howell

Pete Buttigieg, making a bid for rural voters in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, proposed Tuesday to repopulate struggling communities by offering special visas to immigrants who agree to move to those towns.

ReConnect Program grant requests exceed available funds by $322 million

06/05/19 6:20 AM By Ben Nuelle

Nearly 1,688 farms and 1,716 rural businesses across 34 states have requested $522 million in grants for USDA Rural Development’s first round of funding for the ReConnect Pilot Program.

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Farm Hands on the Potomac: Farm Credit appoints acting CEO

05/22/19 6:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

The loss of Dallas Tonsager, Corn Refiners Association taps a new COO, Alltech adds four new senior executives, and Ducks Unlimited adds to its public policy team.

FCA Chairman Dallas Tonsager, former USDA undersecretary, dies

05/21/19 9:45 PM By Philip Brasher

Dallas Tonsager, the chairman of the Farm Credit Administration since 2016 who earlier served as an undersecretary for rural development at USDA, died Tuesday. He was 64.

In search of rural economic analysis to gauge SGMA, other impacts

05/08/19 9:19 AM By Brad Hooker

A bill proposing a California version of the USDA's Rural Development agency would devote an economist to studying the impacts of SGMA.

Small dairies see innovation, niche marketing as keys to success

05/01/19 6:26 AM By Fran Howard

The U.S. dairy industry has been contracting and consolidating for decades, but some smaller family farm operations are finding unique ways to survive.

Farm Hand on the Potomac: Harden heads to DMI

05/01/19 6:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

Harden begins new role with Dairy Management Inc. and USDA's Rural Development appoints new leadership.

Farm Hands on the Potomac West: May 1

04/30/19 3:44 PM By Hannah Pagel

Peck joins Colorado Department of Agriculture and Dairy Management Inc. gains Harden.

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Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.

This week’s guest on Open Mic is U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren. The California Democrat worked with some GOP members and the ag industry to see the Farm Worker Modernization act approved last week in the House. The bill faces an uncertain future in the Senate, but has the backing of hundreds of farm groups across the country. On trade, Lofgren supports the USMCA as amended but isn’t sure the phase one pact announced with China has much to offer her district.

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Washington Week in Review: Dec. 12, 2019: USMCA, ag labor bill, and confirmation of Stephen Hahn

This week House Dems have finalized their negotiations on USMCA and are looking at a vote to take place early next week. Spencer and Phil also discuss the House passage of an ag labor bill and the Senate confirmation of Stephen Hahn as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

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