Items Tagged with 'Food Supply'

In this opinion piece, former U.S. Senator and Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns criticizes legislation recently introduced in Congress that he contends would give foreign entities the power to bring frivolous patent lawsuits that threaten the use of advanced agricultural technology by family farmers.

In this opinion piece, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stresses that biosecurity is the key to limiting the spread of H5N1 and says USDA is developing a program to compensate producers with infected dairy herds.

In this opinion piece, Rep. Frank Lucas addresses the issue of foreign farmland acquisition and what Congress is doing to address it.

In this opinion piece, Jared Planz highlights reasons Congress should fully fund Farm Bill conservation programs, focusing on the soil-health benefits that help farmers keep their land in farming from one generation to the next.