Tag: farm policy
USDA puts $3 billion into ‘deeply flawed’ Climate Smart Commodities program
Even at first glance, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recently announced $3 billion Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities sounds like doublespeak.
Ohio Food Policy Network launches 2021 agenda
The Ohio Food Policy Network is hoping the pandemic can be a launch pad to new normals for food systems. The network unveiled its new policy agenda June 11.
How to cultivate change through ag advocacy
Farmers often feel powerless to change rules and regulations. However, farmers can cultivate change collectively through ag advocacy.
National Farmers members form policy at annual meeting
National Farmers members from across the U.S. agreed March 12 on farm policy planks at the organization's 2019 annual meeting in West Des Moines.
Emergency payments made deep problem
Alan Guebert reflects on comments made by a pair of ag experts about the White House's announcement about its $12 billion tariff mitigation package July 24.
USDA agencies caught in middle
Alan Guebert says a hallmark of the Trump administration’s management of farm policy is picking fights that are as costly to win as they are to lose.
Bad mojo starts 2018
Much of last year's bad mojo — the crazy weather, its bitter politics, policy gridlock — also crossed December's ice bridge into the new year.
The anti-science of ‘sound science’
For more than 20 years, farm groups, Congress and big agbiz have used the phrase "sound science" to undermine ag policy they want to alter or bury.
Bipartisan urban ag bill intended to spur economy
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur introduced the Urban Agriculture Production Act Sept. 8, a bipartisan bill to bolster nutritional and farmers’ market programs.
Lobbying and money and the Hill
In Washington, D.C. the week of April 10, ag-related and ag-dependent groups overran Congressional offices and government agencies in waves of annual “fly-ins.”
