House Ag: Put protection for growers back into farm bill
The support structure for farmers built into the farm bill is under review. Last week’s meeting on commodity policy and crop insurance was one in a series the U.S. House Agriculture Committee is conducting over the next few months to make changes for the 2018 farm bill.
Government shutdown possible due to Congress' budget brawl
Facing the prospects of a government shutdown this Friday over a fight to fund President Donald Trump’s Mexican border wall, members of Congress are prepared to pass a short-term stopgap to give the White House and lawmakers additional time to resolve their differences.
Midwest universities, led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Michigan State University and Purdue University in Indiana, once again ranked among the best institutions for agricultural sciences programs across the globe, one of the latest world evaluations shows.
As thousands of supporters participated in the nation’s “March for Science” rally last weekend, federal officials were meeting behind closed doors at U.S. EPA headquarters to cut more than 3,100 agency jobs, a third of which will be top government scientists.
