National Sorghum Producers (NSP) endorses the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s interim rule on Technical Guidelines for Climate-Smart Agriculture Crops Used as Biofuel Feedstocks. NSP Chair Amy France, a sorghum farmer from Scott City, Kan., released the following statement.| National Sorghum Producers
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, July 14, 2024 The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 28 ruling to overturn the Chevron deference was a business-favoring decision to upend 40 years of legal precedent and redirect federal power from agencies like the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to the courts and Congress. Big Ag loved the news. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association [...]| Farm & Food File
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, July 7, 2024 This year, like last year, is a Farm Bill year and this year, like last year, probably won’t deliver any Farm Bill. The reason is the oldest one in Washington, D.C.: politics. Most Congressional Republicans aren’t interested in passing any bipartisan farm and food assistance bill when they believe a delay might deliver a GOP-controlled House, [...]| Farm & Food File
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, June 23, 2024 While Americans still face a long season of political campaigning, more than 80 other nations have completed their federal elections this year or are about to go to the polls. For example, France’s general elections will be held June 30, the United Kingdom’s on July [...]| Farm & Food File
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, June 16, 2024 A longstanding complaint here is the utter incomprehensibility of federal milk pricing policy. For years we’ve joked (mostly through tears) that only four people in the world understand its complexity and, worse, not one of them is a dairy farmer. As if to prove our point, [...]| Farm & Food File
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, June 2, 2024 We in agriculture have a long tradition of marketing our bounty by more pleasant, if not less-than-truthful, names in hopes that less-informed eaters buy the sizzle rather than the fact. For example, the beef checkoff has spent millions urging people to purchase something called flat-iron steak that isn’t steak [...]| Farm & Food File
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, May 26, 2024 The Biden Administration’s trade agenda–mostly forgotten after three years of Covid, inflation, war in Ukraine, brutality in the Middle East, and a cantankerous Congress–recently surfaced and, wow, is it a mess. For example, both presumptive presidential candidates, Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump, recently argued over how high [...]| Farm & Food File
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, May 19, 2024 The slowest dance on Capitol Hill, the writing of a new Farm Bill, gained tempo May 1 when both the House and Senate Ag committees released versions of their bills. The House bill was a broadly worded, five-page “outline;” the Senate’s, a detailed 94-page report. Noting the differences in both heft [...]| Farm & Food File
