Farm Bill
House Ag Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) threatened to sue the administrator of USDA’s Farm Service Agency, Richard Fordyce, over continuous sign-ups for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).
Pro Farmer Washington Analyst Jim Wiesemeyer talks ethanol, SCOTUS, the farm bill and more and separates signal from noise.
Senate Agriculture Committee leadership worked into the night last night to pull together a bipartisan farm bill to present to the committee.
A freshman Republican from one of the nation’s deepest-red districts said the rejection of House farm legislation on Friday is the latest setback for agriculture under GOP leadership.
USDA’s goal is to issue regulations in fall 2019 to accommodate the 2020 planting season, the agency said in a recent release.
President Donald Trump signed H.R. 2, the Agriculture Improvement Act, better known as the 2018 Farm Bill, in a ceremony at USDA Thursday afternoon.
The Senate is pushing to release its version of the farm bill by Friday. U.S. Farm Report’s Tyne Morgan has exclusive reporting from Capitol Hill and the White House
The cotton industry is experiencing a number of changes already in 2018, some of which includes ginning assistance and a new safety-net under the current farm bill.