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The push to get a farm bill across the finish line this year could run headlong into the partisan fight over budget cuts versus raising the government’s borrowing limit.  On Thursday, new House Ag Chair, Republican Glenn Thompson stressed that lawmakers have a deadline in front of them, since the current Farm Bill expires on September 30th of this year.  While that de...

Earlier this month, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association urged the Biden administration to press pause on a new Waters of the U.S. rule.  NCBA’s Executive Director for National Resources and Executive Director of the Public Lands Council Kaitlynn Glover said they have asked the EPA to wait until the Supreme Court makes its ruling on the Sacket v. EPA case to avoid tw...

On Tuesday, the Biden Administration provided $50 million in grants for schools to invest in new food service equipment that will allow them to continue serving nutritious meals.  The funding adds to the $30 million equipment grants the administration gave schools earlier this year.   ...

Earlier this week, the White House announced the date for its Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.  The Conference, set for September 28th, is slated to be the first Conference of this kind in more than 50 years.     Millions of Americans are afflicted with food insecurity and diet-related diseases, including heart disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes, which are some of the leading causes

The June Consumer Price Index rose to 9.1%, a 40-year high.  The jump was led by higher prices for items such as food and gasoline, putting a dent in the budgets of rural Americans.  White House Council of Economic Advisers member Jared Bernstein noted recent decline in energy prices were not included in this most recent report. “This...

Russia’s war against Ukraine is hitting Americans in the pocketbook and many overseas in the stomach.  Ukrainian grain exports have collapsed, and Western sanctions limit Russian oil and fertilizer exports.  All of this makes U.S. and European...

We're six months into the bipartisan infrastructure law and it's efforts to improve our nation's various forms of infrastructure, both rural and urban. "We have funded over 4300 projects already, touching over 3200 communities across all 50 States ...

"This September I'll be convening a White House conference on hunger nutrition and health," President Joe Biden recently announced. The Commander In Cheif noted the conference is designed to catalyze both the public and private sectors. "Anti-hunger and nutrition advocates, food companies, local & state governments, tribal and territory communities; to lay out our plan to comba

The U.S. Dairy Export Council and the National Milk Producers Federation sent a letter to the White House last week, regarding specific recommendations to help solve supply chain issues. The top recommendation calls for USDA’s Agriculture Marketing Service to restart its Ocean Shipping Container Availability Report. ...

R-CALF calls the White House action plan for the meat supply chain "progress", but the group remains skeptical about the plan. The effort includes government funding intended to slowly rebuild the competitive marketing channels for cattle and beef, which has created what the administration calls a "bottleneck" in the nation's food supply chain ...