#Farm-policy

There is much fuss these days over the American Heritage Foundation’s extreme right-wing 2025 Mandate for Leadership project, and whether presidential candidate Donald Trump supports it or not and, if so, to what extent (see account in The Guardian). The Project 2025 plan includes calls for

I got sent a mailing from USDA: “FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Delivers on its Promises to Invest in Rural Communities, Nutrition Security, Climate-Smart Agriculture, More and Better Markets and Lower Costs for Families.” This is a summary of an extraordinarily long list of actions taken

Everyfive years or so, Congress gets to work on a new Farm Bill.  This is a big job. I’ve written about the Farm Bill previously.  See, for example, my opinion piece in Politico: “The Farm Bill drove me insane.” Here are two recent publications to get you started. The Congressional Research

I was interested to see this graph in a recent report, USDA Agricultural Projections to 2031. What this says is that agricultural imports are soon expected to be greater than agricultural exports. Within the next year or so, the United States will be a net importer of agricultural products. As

I saw this headline in The Guardian. I went immediately to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report:  A multi-billion-dollar opportunity – Repurposing agricultural support to transform food systems. The trends emerging from the analysis are a clear call for action at country,