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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.

USDA investing $122 million to expand and upgrade rural electric systems

03/06/19 6:11 AM By Hannah Pagel

USDA will invest $122 million to expand and upgrade rural electric systems in Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Oklahoma and South Dakota.

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Congressman Rodney Davis, R-Ill

This week’s guest on Open Mic is Congressman Rodney Davis. The fourth term Republican reports tariffs and renewable fuel are the top two concerns among his constituents in the thirteenth district. Davis supports President Trump’s efforts to open markets and level the playing field for U.S. farmers and ranchers, but hopes for a quick conclusion in the trade war. Davis is outspoken in his call to bring the USMCA trade agreement to the House floor and says his proposed legislation on implementing the Renewable Fuels Standard and granting small refinery exemptions will work hand in hand with recent objectives announced by the White House.

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Opinion: How US foreign aid boosts the economy back home

Peter McPherson, President, Association of Public Land-Grant Universities, talks how foreign aid to low-income countries not only gives their economy a boost but gives the United States' economy a boost as well.