Farm Bill

Sunday Edition: H.R. 7567

* Some 200 USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service employees are being transferred from Washington, DC to locations in Iowa, Georgia and Colorado. A new National Food Safety Center will be

By Dan Flynn

/ 10 May 2026

Sunday Edition: The Farm Bill

The "one massive bill" approach, implemented every five years, has long shaped agriculture, food assistance, school lunches and rural development.

By Dan Flynn

/ 8 Feb 2026

Farm Bill will likely be held over to 2025

Sen. Chuck Grassley met with Iowa media and said that there is no chance that an entirely new Farm Bill will be approved before the 118th Congress ends in just

By Dan Flynn

/ 6 Dec 2024

Farm Bill will likely be held over to 2025

A late Food Security Act entry from the retiring Chairwoman Stabenow

U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-MI, introduced the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act on Nov. 18. It includes $39 billion in new resources

By Dan Flynn

/ 20 Nov 2024

A late Food Security Act entry from the retiring Chairwoman Stabenow

The Trump Farm Bill is nearing extinction

Long definitions exist for the Farm Bill. Here are a couple: “In the United States, the farm bill is a comprehensive omnibus bill that is the federal government’s primary

By Dan Flynn

/ 23 Apr 2024

The Trump Farm Bill is nearing extinction

Letter from the Editor: Vilsack gone?

His campaign for President was brief, but Tom Vilsack is one of longest serving Secretaries of Agriculture in U.S. history. He held the post for the 8-year Obama Administration,

By Dan Flynn

/ 20 Feb 2024

Groups seek president’s attention to food safety in upcoming Farm Bill

This is an excerpt from a letter sent to President Biden earlier this month by a coalition of 150 groups. The topic of the letter was the upcoming negotiation of

By Guest Contributor

/ 28 Sep 2022

Groups seek president’s attention to food safety in upcoming Farm Bill

The new reality of USDA catfish regulation

Not since April 30, 2014, when USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) obtained the primary regulatory oversight for catfish and catfish products from the Food and Drug Administration,

By Dan Flynn

/ 17 Aug 2021

The new reality of USDA catfish regulation

Publisher’s Platform: Revive the MDP

Hundreds sicken and hospitalized, dozens with kidney failure and 7 deaths from romaine in the last 12 months in the U.S. and Canada and the response from industry and

By Bill Marler

/ 30 Nov 2018

Senate might not buy King’s amendment to open all states to all American farm products

Representative Steve King, R-IA, has succeeded in attaching his “Protect Interstate Commerce Act (PICA) of 2018” to the House version of the now 641-page “Farm Bill” and senators are pushing

By Dan Flynn

/ 7 Aug 2018

Senate might not buy King’s amendment to open all states to all American farm products

USDA grants through NIFA include food safety research

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced support for research, education, and extension projects that promote a safe, nutritious food supply. The

By U.S. Department of Agriculture

/ 4 Dec 2017

States want ‘robust partnership’ with Washington D.C. on ag

Policy goals for 2017 are being set this week by one of the nation’s smallest, but most powerful agricultural groups. The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA)

By Dan Flynn

/ 31 Jan 2017

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Farm Bill

Sunday Edition: H.R. 7567

Sunday Edition: The Farm Bill

Farm Bill will likely be held over to 2025

A late Food Security Act entry from the retiring Chairwoman Stabenow

The Trump Farm Bill is nearing extinction

Letter from the Editor: Vilsack gone?

Groups seek president’s attention to food safety in upcoming Farm Bill

The new reality of USDA catfish regulation

Publisher’s Platform: Revive the MDP

Senate might not buy King’s amendment to open all states to all American farm products

USDA grants through NIFA include food safety research

States want ‘robust partnership’ with Washington D.C. on ag

Your Support Protects Public Health