"Top Ag Republican Offers Bleak Prognosis For Farm Bill"
"Congress might be better off leaving an already overdue five-year farm bill unfinished in 2024, Arkansas Republican Sen. John Boozman said Tuesday."
Source: E&E News, 07/19/2024
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The Most Expensive Farm Bill Ever Is Stalled, Blocking Climate Funds
"Lawmakers approved spending bills for agriculture this week, but bickered over environmental regulations and the lack of progress on the bill."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/15/2024
"Monsanto Roundup Trial Win Overturned By Oregon Court"
"An Oregon appeals court on Wednesday overturned a trial victory by Monsanto owner Bayer AG in a decision that adds to an ongoing debate over the company’s efforts to create a nationwide legal and legislative shield from lawsuits alleging Roundup weed killer causes cancer."
Source: The New Lede, 07/15/2024
"Congress Weighs Delaying Farm Bill Over SNAP and Climate Disputes"
"A battle that ties food aid for needy families with crop subsidies for American farmers may stall efforts to renew a sweeping agricultural policy law, forcing Congress to consider delaying action on the $1.5 trillion proposal until after this fall’s elections."
Source: Washington Post, 06/04/2024
Deadly Threat To General Sherman And California's Beloved Giant Sequoias
"Last week, General Sherman, California's most famous giant sequoia, got a checkup."
Source: LAist, 06/03/2024
House GOP Farm Bill ‘Robs Peter To Pay Paul,’ Agriculture Secretary Says
"The House Agriculture committee is trying to fund its farm bill proposals with “counterfeit money,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters Wednesday morning. Vilsack spoke after a range of groups from across the political spectrum criticized House Republicans’ proposed farm bill, which seeks to direct tens of billions to subsidies for farmers of peanuts, rice and cotton."
Source: The Hill, 05/24/2024
"Left And Right Unite In Panning House Republicans’ Farm Bill Proposal"
"The proposed version of the $1.5 trillion omnibus unveiled last week by House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) includes several priorities of big agribusiness — proposals that frustrated both right-aligned groups such as the Heritage Foundation and left-leaning ones including the Environmental Working Group amid progressives’ and populists’ broader dislike of what they see as crony capitalism at the U.S. farmstand."
Source: The Hill, 05/22/2024
"5 Takeaways From Competing Democratic, GOP Farm Bill Plans"
"House Republicans and Democrats have released two dueling visions for the farm bill, the massive $1.5 trillion omnibus that underpins the U.S. food system."
Source: The Hill, 05/06/2024
"‘No Means No’: Conservation Spat May Still Sink Farm Bill"
"After more than a year of hearings, listening sessions and heavy lobbying by policy groups, the five-year bill that funds agriculture and nutrition programs doesn’t look much closer to becoming law than it did when the discussions began."
Source: E&E News, 02/28/2024
"How Much Carbon Can Farmers Store In Their Soil? Nobody’s Sure."
"Dirt, it turns out, isn’t just worm poop. It’s also a humongous receptacle of carbon, some 2.5 trillion tons of it — three times more than all the carbon in the atmosphere."
Source: Grist, 02/13/2024
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