…of the 2018 Farm Bill. Despite budgetary constraints and competing priorities, this bill provides investments into conservation by maintaining overall Conservation Title funding levels. Additionally, the bill increases the Conservation…
Livestock Groups Happy with FMD Funding in Farm Bill
…prepare for an FMD outbreak. But, we do need mandatory funding to make it work.” FMD is an infectious viral disease that affects cloven-hooved animals, including cattle, pigs and sheep;…
FMD Language In Senate Agriculture Panel’s Farm Bill
…and chairman of NPPC’s Farm Bill Policy Task Force. “With a vaccine bank, we’ll finally be able to adequately prepare for an FMD outbreak. But we do need mandatory funding…
FCC Chairman Proposes Rural Healthcare Funding Increase
…would apply the increased cap to the current funding year to “immediately address a critical funding crisis” and enable rural health care providers to continue offering telemedicine services. The order…
USDA Announces $309 Million Investment in Rural Electric Utilities
…will build or improve 1,660 miles of electric line serving rural homes, farms and businesses. USDA is funding infrastructure improvements for utilities in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri,…
Bayer Closes Monsanto Acquisition
…Hugh Grant, outgoing Chairman and CEO of Monsanto. “I am proud of the path we have paved as Monsanto and look forward to the combined company helping move modern agriculture…
Agri View: Farm Bill Debate Goes On
…of it will go to funding SNAP. That is the part of the bill that pays for food for poor families. If it takes until February to get the Farm…
USDA Reopens Application Period for Producers Recovering from Cattle Loss, Other Disasters
…programs, including: Removing ELAP’s $20 million fiscal year funding cap, enabling FSA to pay producers’ 2017 applications in full and their 2018 applications as soon as they are approved. Removing…
Ethanol Coalition Sues EPA Over Secretive RFS Waivers
…have estimated in financial disclosures that the exemptions saved them roughly $170 million in costs. The petitioners aren’t challenging the EPA’s authority to grant the waivers. They’re challenging these three…
Secretary Perdue Receives Request for Dairy Relief Funds
…on May 15 to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue seeks funding through the USDA as part of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act. “Now is a time of unprecedented distress on…
Research Funding Recently Approved for Grapevine Viruses
The California Department of Food and Agriculture recently approved $3.4 million in funding for research focused on grapevine viruses. The decision was made the Pierce’s Disease/Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Board meeting held…
Grassley-Conaway Subsidy Feud Escalates
…House Freedom Caucus Chair Mark Meadows failed in his effort to promote an amendment that would rein in how much USDA is authorized to grant farmers coping with low commodity…
U.S. Government to Spend $50 Million in Seed Quality
…programs.” Funding will focus on developing seeds that help farmers combat the challenges they face in today’s growing environments. The Act ensures federal investments to support farmers and researchers who…
Funding Available for Agricultural Equipment Replacement
…substitute older ag vehicles and equipment with cleaner, more efficient models. The “Funding Agricultural Replacement Measures for Emission Reductions” (FARMER) Program will have $135 million in funding available to farmers,…