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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, December 13, 2024
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is asking USDA to give poultry processors six more months to implement the department’s new regulations on producer contracts, but USDA says the requirements are "simple" and that companies don't need additional time.
A forest conservation easement program (FCEP) proposed for inclusion in the farm bill is getting support from “a broad coalition of conservation, sportsmen and working forest organizations and companies,” the Land Trust Alliance said Tuesday.
A contract dispute between the nation's largest railroads and 115,000 of their workers is nearing escalation to a strike that could idle more than 7,000 trains, potentially halting the movement of grain during the harvest season.
The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack are taking exception to the white farmers who are challenging a debt relief program for minority producers.
Climate and infrastructure continue to be front and center on Capitol Hill. The Senate Finance Committee will debate a package of clean energy tax incentives today, while Republicans prepare a new counter-proposal on infrastructure spending ahead of the upcoming Memorial Day break.
President Joe Biden is meeting with a group of Democratic and Republican lawmakers today to build support for his giant $2.7 trillion infrastructure package, the American Jobs Plan.
The House Agriculture Committee will debate a $16 billion stimulus measure that includes a substantial down payment on Democrats’ promise to address racial justice issues. The committee’s draft bill, which will be part of a broader $1.9 trillion stimulus package, would provide sweeping debt relief to minority farmers on USDA loans.
A special task force created by the Federal Communications Commission plans to look at ways to improve broadband internet connectivity beyond fiber deployment throughout rural America.
The Senate Commerce Committee has approved a bill that would create a task force to focus on the connectivity and technology needs of modern ag producers who are too often without broadband in their fields and ranches.
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