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SNAP cuts would alter potential farm bill negotiations
A member of the U.S. House Ag Committee says any cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, likely alter negotiations around a new farm bill. Illinois Democratic Representative Nikki Budzinski says Republican efforts of reconciling the budget threaten those in the most need. “This potential for this $283 billion of cuts to SNAP,…
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America’s Grain and Feed Industry Endorses Innovative FEED Act, Urges Action
ARLINGTON, Va. – The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) today applauded the reintroduction of the Innovative Feed Enhancement and Economic Development (FEED) Act. The bill would streamline the regulatory process for non-nutritive animal food ingredients with widespread societal benefits, such as reducing human foodborne illness, improving animal production, and protecting the environment. The bipartisan…
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Bipartisan Bill Would Lower Egg Prices
(WASHINGTON D.C.) — This week, Representatives Josh Riley (D-NY), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Pat Harrigan (R-NC), and Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-MI) introduced “The Lowering Egg Prices Act.” The bipartisan bill would lower egg prices for consumers by cutting bureaucratic red tape that forces farmers to discard hundreds of millions of eggs each year. Federal regulations require farmers…
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Officials hear impacts of federal funding freeze
The Trump administration’s freezing and cutting of federal funds is having devastating impacts across the country. “Never before have I called for mass activism, but this is the moment.” Illinois Governor JB Pritzker joined Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski and others to hear directly from those impacted by the funding freeze. “Farming, as all of you know,…
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Rounds Urges Ag Secretary to Clarify Disaster Assistance Eligibility for Producers
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today sent a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins to request the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) develop a transparent set of crop insurance requirements for disaster assistance programs. This request comes after ambiguous guidance in previous programs required producers to return a portion of disaster assistance payments.…
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Poll: Do You Agree With President Trump’s Use of Tariffs?
Take Our Poll: Do You Agree With President Trump’s Use of Tariffs? Agweb Powered by Farm Journal
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Innovative FEED Act introduced in US House
Innovative FEED Act introduced in US House World Grain
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EPA Plans to Cut Scientific Research Program, Could Fire More Than 1,000 Employees
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research office and could fire more than 1,000 scientists and other employees who help provide the scientific foundation for rules safeguarding human health and ecosystems from environmental pollutants. As many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists — 75% of the research program’s staff…
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US judge blocks Trump’s EPA from clawing back climate grants
US judge blocks Trump’s EPA from clawing back climate grants Yahoo
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NOPA Urges USDA to Strengthen CSA Rule to Support U.S. Oilseed Farmers & Biofuel Growth
NOPA Urges USDA to Strengthen CSA Rule to Support U.S. Oilseed Farmers & Biofuel Growth Farms.com
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Rollins says USDA’s plan to address HPAI is working
Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says the work the Trump administration is doing to address highly pathogenic avian influenza is working. “The market reacted very positively to being bold and to having a big plan to investing where it matters, in biosecurity especially,” she says. “We’ve seen the prices come down in the wholesale market 44%…
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AFBF: An Update on the Latest Tariff Situation with Canada and China
(WASHINGTON D.C.) — After a flurry of moves and countermoves from the U.S., Canada, Mexico and China, several tariffs and retaliatory tariffs are in place. American Farm Bureau Federation Economist Betty Resnick has an update on the current state of play. “We now have an additional 20 percent tariff on all Chinese products, and that…
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Evers berates White House as cutbacks in USDA local food programs concern farmers
Evers berates White House as cutbacks in USDA local food programs concern farmers AOL
