Senate Agriculture Committee Archives

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, shown here in Michigan in 2011, proposes a voluntary COOL system for beef and pork, while keeping mandatory COOL for lamb and other covered goods. (Stabenow.senate.gov via Flickr)

U.S. senators ponder voluntary COOL for beef, pork

Considering a repeal for a meat label law ruled offside by world trade regulators, members of the U.S. Senate’s ag committee are also asking aloud if a voluntary label law for beef and pork would do. At the agriculture committee’s hearings Thursday in Washington, D.C., chairman Pat Roberts told senators trade retaliation from Canada and

Cereals, Crops, Weather

Drought projected in parts of the U.S.

By Charles Abbott February 23, 2013

Reuters / U.S. farmers will plant crops this spring under the shadow of a persistent drought that grips prime farmland from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, with grain supplies already tight from drought losses in 2012. In all, 56 per cent of the contiguous United States is under moderate to exceptional drought, twice

Crops, News

Fiscal battles block work on new U.S. farm subsidy bill

By Charles Abbott February 6, 2013

Reuters / Fiscal battles in Congress could prevent lawmakers from writing a new Farm Bill for weeks or months, prolonging disputes over farm subsidy reforms and cuts in food stamps for the poor that together could save up to $35 billion. Agricultural leaders in Congress originally hoped for speedy work on the overdue Farm Bill

News

New top Republican on ag committee

January 17, 2013

washington / reuters Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran has claimed the role of Republican leader on the Senate Agriculture Committee, giving the U.S. cotton and rice growing region a more powerful voice in the debate over how to reform farm subsidies. Cochran displaced Pat Roberts from Kansas, one of the largest wheat-growing states. Roberts was an

International news, News

Obama calls for end to direct payments

March 5, 2012

With Congress beginning an overhaul of U.S. farm law, President Barack Obama called Feb. 13 for elimination of a $5-billion-a-year subsidy paid to farmers regardless of need but held steady funding for the department’s often-criticized data forecasting arm. Obama proposed reforms totalling $32 billion over 10 years for farm supports in his new budget. It

News, Oilseeds

U.S. Crop Boom Not Enough To Rebuild Supply

March 10, 2011

Huge U.S. corn and soybean plantings this spring will likely fail to refill razor-thin stocks enough to quell the surge in grain prices, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Feb. 24. In updated forecasts for the world’s biggest crop exporter, the USDA warned that it could take several years to restore inventories to comfortable levels. It

News

U.S. Senate Ag Panel Gets New Chair

November 25, 2010

Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan will become chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee next year, putting her in charge of overhauling U.S. farm policy when spending cuts are likely and her leadership skills are unproven. Stabenow won expansion of programs for fruit and vegetable growers in the 2008 farm law without alienating growers of row

News

U.S. Election Means A Pinch On Farm Funds

By Charles Abbott November 11, 2010

U.S. lawmakers will face increasing pressure to constrain spending on farm subsidy programs, possibly as part of government-wide austerity, in the wake of large Republican gains in the midterm elections. At its most extreme, the budget cutting could push millions of acres back into production by slashing long-term reserves that idle 10 per cent of

News

U. S. Farm Subsidy Debate Rekindled

By Charles Abbott May 6, 2010

The U. S. farm program should be refined but does not need to be radically rewritten to replace crop supports with revenue guarantees or to make rural economic development the centrepiece, a key senator says. Saxby Chambl iss of Georgia, the Republican leader on the Senate Agriculture Committee, said he hoped “that we don’t talk

Crops

Food Makers Support More U. S. Control Of School Food

April 1, 2010

Four major food and beverage makers announced support March 18 for legislation expanding U. S. control over snacks sold at schools and allowing the government to ban junk food from campuses. It would be the first crackdown on school snacks in three decades but the compromi se stops short of proposals, made in the past,

Daily Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

Tag Archives Senate Agriculture Committee

U.S. senators ponder voluntary COOL for beef, pork

Drought projected in parts of the U.S.

Fiscal battles block work on new U.S. farm subsidy bill

New top Republican on ag committee

Obama calls for end to direct payments

U.S. Crop Boom Not Enough To Rebuild Supply

U.S. Senate Ag Panel Gets New Chair

U.S. Election Means A Pinch On Farm Funds

U. S. Farm Subsidy Debate Rekindled

Food Makers Support More U. S. Control Of School Food

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