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Thursday, January 27, 2022
Darren Filkins has been appointed as the new chief executive officer of Harris Farms and after 36 years with Mission Produce, Ross Wileman will retire as senior vice president of sales and marketing.
Scott Herndon has been named the new president of Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture and President Joe Biden has announced the appointments of eight individuals to serve in regional roles at USDA.
School districts are joining some state agriculture and education departments in appealing to the Agriculture Department to create a list of food products that are exempt from Buy American requirements because U.S.-made versions are hard to obtain.
The House is scheduled to vote today on both a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and the larger Build Back Better package of climate measures and social spending.
More than $90 billion in agriculture spending, including a 50% increase in conservation program funding, is at stake as congressional Democrats wrangle over how to pare back their $3.5 trillion Build Back Better bill to woo critical moderate votes.
In response to growing concerns about COVID-19, more than 30 state and national agricultural organizations representing farm, commodity and agribusiness communities joined together to promote vaccination among farmers and other rural Americans.
A dozen major farm groups have jumped into the fray over conservation funding in the estimated $3.5 trillion reconciliation package Democrats plan to introduce in the Senate, calling for “increased investment in climate-smart agricultural practices that sequester carbon or reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
More workers and a more diverse food system, including small and medium-sized meatpackers, are necessary for American agriculture to maintain resilience in the face of threats to the system, commenters told USDA as the department embarks on its effort to reimagine the country's agricultural supply chains.
President Joe Biden is expected to release a new round of spending proposals this week, plus the tax increases to pay for them. Farm groups have been raising concerns for weeks about those tax proposals in the expectation they will include either the elimination of stepped-up basis or a new “transfer” tax on inherited assets.
