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Sunday, April 18, 2021
The Senate is expanding a long-stalled disaster assistance bill to aid farmers and ranchers swamped by recent Midwest floods, but it’s still not clear when Congress will pass the legislation due to a dispute between the White House and House Democrats over funding for Puerto Rico.
Farmers who were hit by hurricanes and wildfires last year can still sign up for significant financial assistance from the USDA, but time will run out Friday, Farm Service Administrator Richard Fordyce told Agri-Pulse in an interview.
The first release of 2017 Census of Agriculture results will occur Feb. 21 at the USDA 2019 Outlook Forum, says Hubert Hamer, administrator of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, which conducts the five-year tallies.
Bruce Walker, the newly installed assistant secretary in DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, says his recent two-week visit to Puerto Rico showed the need to make the island’s electric grid more resilient against future storms.
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) sent 1,000 power line poles to Puerto Rico last week to help rebuild the electrical grid devastated by Hurricane Maria.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2017 - Amid criticism, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) is backing out of a $300 million contract with Montana-based Whitefish Energy.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2017 - USDA is providing $12 million to enable dairy operators in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico to purchase emergency feed for their cattle.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2017 - In response to Hurricane Maria, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt approved a request from Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosella for an emergency fuel waiver.