Agri-Pulse DriveTime

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi not including CCC funding in the stopgap spending bill is like telling farmers to drop dead. More in today’s DriveTime.

Stopgap spending bill blocks Commodity Credit Corporation replenishment and world-famous Chef Jose Andres proposes improvements to USDA’s Farmers to Families Food Box Program. More in today’s DriveTime.

USDA announces another round of payments in the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says there’s bipartisan support for restaurant funding in another relief package. More in today’s DriveTime.

A top Republican on the Senate Ag Committee says lawmakers are working in the background on relief despite high-level negotiations and pork producers ask Congress for additional COVID relief. More in today’s DriveTime.

A Midwest farmer tells the Senate the new federal water pollution rule provides certainty for producers and a former Obama USDA official weighs in on the Trump administration’s latest actions on small refinery exemptions. More in today’s DriveTime with Ben Nuelle.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addresses National Farmers Union members and Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa expects the EPA to deny all retroactive small refinery exemptions. More in today’s DriveTime.