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On Capitol Hill last week, the Senate Ag committee heard testimony of how best to create a workable carbon credit market system for farmers. American Farm Bureau Federation President, Zippy Duvall, said whatever is created will not get much farmer support without clear rules ...

The head of the National Farmers Union blasted the EPA recently, calling it a “barrier” for reducing greenhouse gasses in biofuels. “The EPA has been the primary barrier to a lot of additional success that we can have in reducing greenhouse gasses in ethanol technology,” said Rob Larew, President of the National Farmers Union. “The story for grain- ...

Farm groups offered their support this week for a climate bill that would give farmers access to carbon offset markets during a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing Wednesday. The Growing Climate Solutions Act would create a certification program at the Department of Agriculture to help solve technical barriers to participation in carbon credit markets for farmers and forest landowners ... Read

As lawmakers haggled over a $2 trillion economic stimulus package to help the U.S. overcome the coronavirus pandemic, the National Farmers Union expressed concerned about the lasting mark COVID-19 will leave on rural America. The bill approved Wednesday is the most expensive in the country’s history. It ...

In early March, Rob Larew was elected President of the National Farmer Union. He said his years of working with outgoing president Roger Johnson helped train and prepare him for a smooth transition. During his first two years as head of the organization, he said NFU will focus on helping rural America get back on its feet financially ...

The National Farmers Union said it’s looking for measures that will bring some certainty to the farm economy in 2020. The organization will emphasize bringing the question about agricultural certainty to presidential candidates. Newly elected NFU President Rob Larew said after the organization's annual convention, “The special orders the delegates passed to set priorities for 2020 reflected wha

Earlier this week, National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson delivered his final address to the organization before retirement and the election of a new leader. After 11 years, Johnson announced his plans to retire in 2020. On Monday, delegates elected Rob Larew to succeed Johnson as the organization’s president. Patty Edelburg ...

The National Farmers Union officially saw Roger Johnson off into retirement late last week during a party that took place in the Farmers and Distillers Restaurant in Washington, D.C. Johnson, the NFU President for 11 years, announced back in December that he would be retiring...

Funding for the federal government has been approved through September.  The fiscal year 2020 appropriations package recently cleared the House and the Senate.  And was signed in to law by President Trump. Highlights of the package from the Ag perspective include additional monies for disaster aid related to 2018 and 2019 natural disasters.  Funding...

On Wednesday, Central Washington’s Dan Newhouse and a host of other lawmakers introduced the Farm Workforce Modernization Act.  Supporters of the legislation say it will streamline the hiring process for farmers, and provide a path to citizenship for workers who have been in the U.S. for at ...