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Sunday, January 16, 2022
An estimated 15,000 bridges nationwide will receive $27 billion in funding to help improve, replace, preserve, and build highway bridges, the Department of Transportation announced Friday.
The Supreme Court has stayed the COVID-19 vaccine-or-test mandate for businesses of 100 or more employees, finding the Occupational Safety and Health Administration did not have the authority to issue it.
The Department of Agriculture is making available $225 million for public-private partnerships aimed at conservation projects, with an eye on climate change mitigation, supporting urban agriculture and helping historically underserved producers.
President Biden’s $1.7 billion Build Back Better bill is going nowhere on Capitol Hill, but Democrats are looking at pulling out the climate-smart ag provisions and clean energy incentives and moving them as a separate package
Fertilizer prices have risen quickly and the National Corn Growers Association is warning that new tariffs on imports could make the situation even worse for farmers.
A flurry of Department of Agriculture reports Wednesday showed bin-busting production of corn, sorghum, soybeans and cotton took place in 2021, largely matching what traders were expecting to see.
New developments in the long-running battle over livestock markets may force the American Farm Bureau Federation to rethink its support for a bipartisan bill to bring transparency to those markets.
Grocery prices rose again in December, but some easing in beef and pork prices helped keep the increase below what it had been in the previous three months, according to the latest Consumer Price Index.
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