Jan 22, 2025 · For its first hearing of the new Congress, the Senate Agriculture Committee invited the leaders of the country’s biggest farm groups to Capitol Hill to share their perspectives on the state of the U.S. farm economy.. During the main panel, National Farmers Union president Rob Larew and American Farm Bureau Federation president Zippy Duvall painted a picture of struggling American farmers ...

Jul 22, 2024 · As of March 2024, the most recent month for which data is available, more than 301,000 farms had close to 25 million acres enrolled in CRP; that’s a lot of acreage, but it represents less than 3 percent of U.S. farmland.. Project 2025, a conservative Republican presidential transition blueprint spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, proposes eliminating CRP.

Jan 8, 2025 · One of the key components of the final spending package was a second one-year extension of the 2018 Farm Bill, the country’s most important piece of food and farm legislation, which is supposed to be rewritten every five years.. Congress first extended the bill back in September 2023, after divided lawmakers failed to get a new 2023 Farm Bill to the floor.

Aug 28, 2024 · Project 2025, the right-wing playbook for the executive branch, has gained feverish political attention in recent weeks as a central talking point of Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign and many speakers at the Democratic National Convention. The sweeping, 920-page document calls for drastic overhauls of federal agencies as well as the erosion of civil rights and the ...

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Jan 14, 2025 · Cara Nixon is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in The Oregonian, EdSource, and The Progressive, and is often inspired by her rural upbringing in the Willamette Valley.

Nov 5, 2024 · Before he was appointed head of Utah’s Department of Natural Resources, Joel Ferry was a full-time farmer—and a very good one. “I was the top ‘Young Farmer and Rancher’ in the state of Utah a few years ago,” he said on a recent phone call, as he drove across the state, minutes before heading into a meeting with the governor.

The Department of Labor (DOL) today announced that the country’s largest meatpacker, JBS USA (whose parent company, JBS, is the largest global meat company), has agreed to pay $4 million to “assist individuals and communities affected by unlawful child labor practices nationwide.” The company also agreed to a list of other actions, including hiring a child labor compliance specialist and ...

Aug 27, 2024 · Since 1990, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency responsible for ensuring food contact materials are safe, approved at least 347 voluntary manufacturer applications for food contact materials made with recycled plastic, according to a database on its website. Approvals have tripled in recent years, from an average of seven to eight per year through 2019, to 23 per year since ...

Jan 13, 2025 · Rebekah Denn, a two-time winner of the James Beard Award, writes about food for several local and national publications.