federal spending

Congress just blocked a government shutdown that would've cut off farm loans, rural hospitals, and food assistance right before the midterms.

The third time was the charm, as the House and then the Senate passed stopgap funding legislation just prior to Friday’s deadline to avert a government shutdown.  Plan “C” approved late last week included farm and disaster aid.  Farm groups, led by the A...

Congress returns in two weeks and Ag lawmakers are expected to resume their push for a long overdue Farm Bill.  Senate Ag Chair Debbie Stabenow told Politico on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention, in Chicago, that she still hopes to pass one more Farm Bill before she retires from the Senate.  But Sta...

In a few days, when producers close the books on the 2021 year, most of those farmers and ranchers will consider it a, "pretty good farm income year," according to USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer. Meyer noted 2021 looks to wrap up as one of the best years in the past eight ...

House Democrats included billions for Ag disaster aid in their stop-gap government funding bill that passed on a party-line vote Wednesday, but that now faces a Senate GOP filibuster over its debt limit hike. The stop-gap spending bill would prevent a government shutdown October 1st, despite the inclusion of billions of dollars for farm country and other disasters ...

Lawmakers in D.C. continue to discuss spending proposals into the billions of dollars, and some even into the trillions. And while details have yet to be ironed out, many of the funding proposals include an increase in estate taxes and capital gains taxes ...

Citing costs and a lack of pay out, some dairy producers have asked for changes in the dairy Margin Protection Program, and now they are seeing results.  Agriculture Department Chief Economist Rob Johansson said in the brand new federal spending bill, MPP was adjusted. ...