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Top item on Democrats' climate agenda faces ag pushback

09/11/19 6:39 AM By Philip Brasher and Steve Davies

The Democratic presidential candidates are rallying around a carbon tax as a central solution to climate change, but putting the idea into law will mean overcoming concerns of farm groups about the tax’s intended goal - raising the cost of fossil fuels.

Rural hospitals nervously watch Medicare expansion plans

09/11/19 6:25 AM By Ed Maixner

Medicare expansion proposals could benefit rural health care, if enacted; more realistically, smaller benefits for rural hospitals, and perhaps cheaper drugs for all, may be on the way.

Dem candidates take aim at Trump’s China trade war

09/04/19 6:27 AM By Bill Tomson

Democratic presidential hopefuls are raising alarms and lashing out at President Donald Trump’s handling of the dispute that’s expected to escalate even further next month.

Sanders' Green New Deal looks to reshape US agriculture

08/22/19 11:42 AM By Philip Brasher

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is proposing a sweeping 10-year plan to carry out the Green New Deal and reshape U.S. agriculture through regulations and subsidies to reduce its environmental impact and push farmers into organic methods and smaller scales of production.

Democratic candidates tap activists, farmers for policy advice

08/14/19 6:45 AM By Philip Brasher

Democratic presidential candidates looking to break through in rural areas are seeking advice on farm policy from activists, farmers, economists and organizations, and those ideas are popping on the stump, in detailed policy proposals as well as in debates.

Where do 2020 Dems stand on climate and agriculture?

06/26/19 6:45 AM By Steve Davies

If just one environmental issue comes up during the Democratic debates scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, there’s a pretty good chance it will be climate change, a subject Republicans prefer to avoid but Democrats trip over themselves to talk about.

U.S. Dairy Export Council President and CEO Tom Vilsack

This week’s guest on Open Mic is the President and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council, former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. While dairy policy improvements in the 2018 farm bill have helped the financial plight of many milk producers, Vilsack says it’s the global trade front that presents the best opportunity for improvement to the bottom line. Vilsack hopes for a positive conclusion to a trade deal with Japan and says the Chinese market holds tremendous opportunity for U.S. dairy. Vilsack highlights global paradigms that could lead to greater demand for U.S. dairy products from both health conscious consumers and for feed for growing livestock herds.

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09.19.2019

Washington Week in Review: Sept. 19, 2019: CR, CCC, Appropriations

Congress is working to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month, and farm policy is playing a key role in the discussions. Agri-Pulse's Phil Brasher and Spencer Chase have more on a funding debate that involved accusations of everything from partisanship to racism.