Showing posts with label USDA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USDA. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Have Rules on Agencies Sharing Data Changed?

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 FCW reports on a White House deal about improving the nation's health and food situation.  Reading between the lines it sounds as if so...
Monday, August 08, 2022

Inflation Reduction Act and Agriculture

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 As is usual to get big bills passed, there's everything in the IRA except the kitchen sink.  The logic is classic log-rolling, everyone...
Saturday, July 09, 2022

Pigford Case Resolved

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 Don't know if I've blogged on this part of the Pigford case before, but here's a case which ends in pleas of guilty by four of...
Thursday, July 07, 2022

USDA Budget Baseline

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 I found this table in the CRS report on farm bill basics interesting:  What jumps out is the huge increase in the baseline for nutrition p...
Friday, May 13, 2022

USDA and Rural Development

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 Politico has a piece on USDA's challenges with rural development. Some excerpts: “We were in the community earlier today of 130 people...
Tuesday, February 01, 2022

Views of USDA--From Outside and Inside

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This report says the federal government doesn't get good marks for its services.  But USDA is one of the highest ranking departments. ...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

GAO on USDA and MFP

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 GAO questions USDA's approaches to calculating MFP benefits.  Too long, didn't read. (i.e., too complicated for an old man.)
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

USDA Is Last (in Vaccinations)

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 That is reported by GovExec here : "   The Veterans Affairs Department and Social Security Administration joined USDA in bringing up ...
Tuesday, November 02, 2021

The Nose of the Camel and Government Programs

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 This Politico piece traces the history of the pension program for Civil War veterans (Union army) from very limited coverage to close to u...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

No Appeal for American Rescue Plan Debt Payments

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 While farmers.gov today just describes the preliminary injunctions, Politico reports that the administration let the deadline for appeal...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Carbon Credits and Bureaucracy

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 A number of articles on the issue of carbon credits-- Politico , Civil Eats   Modern Farmer , and others .  Apparently the Biden administ...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

USDA Appointments

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 The Livingston County News picks up a CQ piece on the appointment of Jewel Bronaugh as deputy secretary for USDA. It notes the criticism ...
Friday, January 01, 2021

Black Farmers in the Biden Administration

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 There's been a number of pieces relating to black farmers recently.  Some are keyed to the new administration and controversy over whet...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

FSA Goes to the City

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 It seems if you can't keep them down on the farm, FSA has been directed to follow them to the city. Apparently the 2018 farm bill inclu...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Improving Rural Life--Butchers and Regulations

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Posted earlier on the need for Democrats to address rural issues.   Here's another one, which fits with the liberal position about favor...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

Justice for Black Farmers Act--First Take

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 Successful Farming has a piece discussing this bill , introduced by Sens. Booker, Warren, and Gillibrand. Warren's statement of support...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

Lloyd Wright in Fortune

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  Mr. Wright has a Fortune magazine piece on black farmers and USDA discrimination in loans.  " Even today, plainly racist policies a...
Friday, October 09, 2020

Perdue's No-No

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 Violating the Hatch Act.
Thursday, October 01, 2020

A Letter from the President

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 USDA and the administration are catching flak because of this: The Agriculture Department last week began mandating that millions of boxes...
Friday, September 04, 2020

Flak on Reopening USDA DC

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USDA's DC area offices are working towards reopening, but catching flak from the employees according to this report.