Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 6.25
June 25, 2024 Contents TAG will be pausing our newsletter next week due to the Fourth of July recess. We will resume on July 9. What We’re Watching Congress Farm Bill The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released their 10-year estimates for farm programs. While this is unlikely to have a major impact on farm bill discussions and […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 6.18
June 18, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Appropriations Last week, the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee released their spending bill for Fiscal Year 2025, and then successfully passed it out of the Subcommittee the following night. The bill provides $25.9 billion in total funding, with $22 billion for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and $6.75 billion […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 6.11
June 11, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Appropriations The House Appropriations Subcommittees are continuing to markup their respective appropriations legislation for Fiscal Year 2025 this week. The Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee will hold their subcommittee markup on Tuesday, June 11 at 6:00 PM. The bill allocates $25.873 billion in discretionary funding, which is a 1.35% […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 6.4
June 4, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Farm Bill Congress was in recess last week and returns this week for legislative business. Following the House Agriculture Committee farm bill markup, it is anticipated that Senate Agriculture Committee Ranking Member John Boozman (R-AR) could release his farm bill priorities in the coming weeks. Members of […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 5.28
May 28, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Farm Bill The Farm Bill process took a big step forward last week when the House Agriculture Committee held its Farm Bill markup during a marathon session, lasting almost thirteen hours. Democrats offered three primary amendments opposing changes to the Commodity Credit Corporation, future updates of the Thrifty Food […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 5.21
May 21, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Farm Bill The House Agriculture Committee released farm bill draft discussion text on Friday, May 17, ahead of the Committee markup, which is scheduled for Thursday, May 23. Upon release of the House draft discussion text, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Stabenow responded noting that she and House Ag Chairman GT Thompson […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 5.14
May 14, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Farm Bill Late last week, House Agriculture Committee Republicans released additional farm bill details with a section-by-section summary. Notable provisions included are removal of the climate guardrails for Inflation Reduction Act conservation funding, increases in funding for trade programs like MAP and FMD, changes to the Thrifty Food […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 5.7
May 7, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Farm Bill Members of Congress are moving ahead on farm bill progress, with both the House and Senate releasing proposals and next steps. In the House, Republicans released their bill summary, with notable provisions being maintaining Inflation Reduction Act conservation dollars in Title II, and limits to the […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 4.30
April 30, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Appropriations This week Congress is in session and will continue work on FY25 Appropriations. The House set the deadline for programmatic and language requests for May 1, which is this Wednesday. The Senate deadline is May 8. Farm Bill The House Agriculture Committee continues to work toward […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 4.16
April 16, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Appropriations Last week, Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK) was given unanimous support by House Republicans to take over as Chair of the House Appropriations Committee following Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) stepping down from the spot. Cole has been the top Republican on the House Appropriations Subcommittees on Transportation-HUD, […]
