Angie Craig

As tough times linger for our local farmers, one representative is stepping up with a plan to ease the financial strain and restore some hope.

Talks are underway in Congress for more farm aid as ag groups are sounding the alarm about an economic crisis in rural America.

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins and the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees will all be featured speakers at the American Farm Bureau Convention.

According to CBS News, the Trump administration will release about $3 billion in assistance to U.S. farmers despite the government shutdown.

On Monday the House passed a five-year reauthorization of USDA’s grain inspection program.

A Farm Bill battle is coming in the fall because Republicans will likely need Democrats’ help to construct a smaller Farm Bill.

Overnight Thursday, the House voted 219-213 to advance President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" for debate before a final vote.

The Trump reconciliation budget the House passed by one vote along party lines this week did nothing to reconcile the stark policy differences between the two parties over the importance of SNAP versus farmers.  Nothing could have made it clearer about the parties’ divergent priorities than an exchange in the Rules Committee between Rules and Ag Republican Austin Scott and top Ag Democrat Angie Cr

The historically bipartisan Farm Bill turned political this week as majority Ag Republicans turned back every Democratic amendment and sent their Farm Bill budget to the House on a party-line vote.  It wasn’t just SNAP spending reforms Democrats went after, but Trump actions like tariffs, staff cuts, and USDA grant freezes.   “From ...

Top House Ag Democrat Angie Craig said her farmers claim Farm Service Agency offices are way understaffed, despite USDA Secretary Rollins’ vow to keep all FSA offices open.  Craig was asked if Secretary Rollins could keep all FSA offices open when 11-hundred FSA staffers have taken deferred resignation buyouts.   “I had...