Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 1.31
January 31, 2022 Contents Big Picture Outlook Thoughts from Team Torrey The Week Ahead A Quick Look Back Big Picture Outlook Ag Hearing with Secretary Vilsack On January 20, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack testified at the House Agriculture Committee hearing entitled “To Review the State of the Rural Economy.” Members spoke to a variety of […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 1.17
January 17, 2022 Contents Big Picture Outlook Thoughts from Team Torrey The Week Ahead A Quick Look Back Big Picture Outlook “Build Back Better” Budget Reconciliation Package Democrats are looking to pull out climate-smart ag provisions and clean energy incentives from the Build Back Better bill and move them as a separate package, according to […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 1.10
January 10, 2022 Contents Big Picture Outlook Thoughts from Team Torrey The Week Ahead A Quick Look Back Big Picture Outlook “Build Back Better” Budget Reconciliation Package This week, the Senate and the White House are focused on voting rights legislation instead of the stalled $1.8 trillion spending compromise proposed to the White House in late 2021 by Senator […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 1.3
January 3, 2022 Contents Big Picture Outlook Thoughts from Team Torrey The Week Ahead A Quick Look Back Big Picture Outlook Debt Ceiling Democrats cleared legislation on Dec. 15 to raise the statutory debt limit by $2.5 trillion, an amount intended to give the Treasury Department enough borrowing room to make it past the midterm […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 12.6
December 6, 2021 Contents Big Picture Outlook Thoughts from Team Torrey The Week Ahead A Quick Look Back Big Picture Outlook Government Spending The Senate passed a stopgap spending bill Thursday that avoids a short-term shutdown and funds the federal government through Feb. 18 after leaders defused a partisan standoff over federal vaccine mandates. The […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 11.29
November 29, 2021 Contents Big Picture Outlook Thoughts from Team Torrey The Week Ahead A Quick Look Back Big Picture Outlook Government Funding Government funding runs out Friday, and the parties have not been able to agree to a yearlong appropriations bill. Neither side wants a shutdown, so Congress is expected to fall back on […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 11.15
November 15, 2021 Contents Big Picture Outlook Thoughts from Team Torrey The Week Ahead A Quick Look Back Big Picture Outlook Infrastructure Bill Passed On November 5, the House of Representatives passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which passed in the Senate earlier this summer. The roughly $1.2 trillion bill contains an estimated $550 billion in […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 11.1
November 1, 2021 Contents Big Picture Outlook Thoughts from Team Torrey The Week Ahead A Quick Look Back Big Picture Outlook Social Spending Framework Announced Last Thursday, the White House announced the framework of President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” social spending package. The price tag sits at $1.75 trillion, down from the original estimates […]
