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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
The House Agriculture Committee puts a focus this week on China and the potential threat it poses to U.S. agriculture, while Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack heads back to Capitol Hill to defend his spending priorities and policy implementation.
Biomass crops show potential to meet growing demands for biobased products, but producers will not plant them without reliable markets, a new Agriculture Department report says.
South Dakota lawmakers have passed a trio of bills designed to smooth the path of a carbon pipeline that the ethanol industry considers crucial to its future but that some farmers and other landowners don’t want on their land.
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday finalized the first requirements for large corporations to disclose their carbon footprint but scrapped a plan opposed by farm groups to mandate tracking of the greenhouse gas emissions in company supply chains.
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack made a series of energy infrastructure announcements Wednesday, including the first under an Inflation Reduction Act effort to stand up renewable energy projects in rural America.
USDA has decided to reduce the kind of data farmers must provide through the department's Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities initiative due to concerns the information requirements could limit producer participation.
President Joe Biden gives his State of the Union address this week as Congress faces a new Friday deadline to pass half its fiscal 2024 spending measures, including the bills needed to fund USDA, EPA and the Interior Department.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Friday the Biden administration would need several more weeks to finalize its carbon assessment of feedstocks for sustainable aviation fuel, but he continued to express confidence that most of the product would ultimately come from agricultural sources.
A policy-driven boom in U.S. renewable diesel demand that’s been underpinning much of the farm economy is showing signs of slowing as production exceeds the government’s usage mandates, but industry officials hope a new tax credit and a big new potential market in Canada will help put some sizzle back in the market.
The Biden administration is forming a new joint program between the Departments of Agriculture and Energy that aims to quadruple the use of wind energy under a federal program.