Post by Catherina Cunnane Californian native Cori Calvert’s casual holiday to the Emerald Isle a number of years ago changed and shaped her progressive future. It… Read More »Women in Ag: Meet the lady who gave up life in the U.S to help run a beef & dairy farm!
Announcing the release of the fourth volume in our food hub technical report series, Running a Food Hub: Learning from Food Hub Closures. The report draws… Read More »New USDA Food Hub Report – Free Hard Copies–Running a Food Hub: Learning from Food Hub Closures
Applications are due on Feb. 8. The Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (BFRDP) RFA has been posted. The RFA is now… Read More »The Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program RFA has been posted
Issac J. Bailey Oct 10 2017, 1:25pm I know lots of Trump supporters. Democrats aren’t going to get them to switch sides by downplaying racism. I… Read More »‘Identity Politics,’ Not Trump Voters, Will Save Democrats
The folks at the Department of Agriculture laid on a friendly welcome for the Trump transition team, but they soon discovered that most of his… Read More »INSIDE TRUMP’S CRUEL CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE U.S.D.A.’S SCIENTISTS
By Erik Wasson December 22, 2017, 4:00 AM EST Updated on December 22, 2017, 10:33 AM EST The Republican-controlled Congress managed the bare minimum task of keeping… Read More »Congress Averts a Shutdown But Now Faces a Messy 2018 Start
By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY 12/18/2017 10:00 AM EST Updated 12/20/2017 12:05 PM EST With Catherine Boudreau, Helena Bottemiller Evich, Jenny Hopkinson and Maya Parthasarathy BIOTECH SEIZES CHANCE TO… Read More »Crop breeders see boon in deregulation push
By JAKE SHERMAN (sherman@politico.com; @JakeSherman), ANNA PALMER (anna@politico.com; @apalmerdc) and DANIEL LIPPMAN (daniel@politico.com; @dlippman) 12/19/2017 06:19 AM EST Good Tuesday morning. TAX REFORM is expected to be on the… Read More »TAX REFORM IS HAPPENING — RYAN in 1998: ‘Our tax system is punishing all those qualities that MAKE AMERICA GREAT’ — INSIDE the funding strategy that will dominate this week — BACKSTORY on CORKER
By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY 12/19/2017 10:00 AM EST With Helena Bottemiller Evich, Doug Palmer, Sarah Ferris and Maya Parthasarathy A RECOVERY IN BEEF PRICES: After a few financially… Read More »Beef prices, and production, are rising
Arizona has the highest proportion of female farmers – but conditions in this dry desert landscape aren’t easy, and rural isolation has created a tapestry… Read More »‘If there’s no water, what’s the point?’ Female farmers in Arizona – a photo essay