Stephanie Herseth Sandlin & Tom Ewing from 25×25 Alliance wrote an Op-Ed today titled Leave Renewable Fuels Standard Alone. Below is the Op-Ed which was published today in Politico. Leave … Read More
USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Rebecca Blue, On Attending NFU's Recent Women's Conference
Editor’s note: The following blog post was written by USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Rebecca Blue. It is reposted here with permission. Blue recently wrote about … Read More
New FSA Microloan Program is a Win for Family Farmers
By Brittany Jablonsky, NFU Government Relations Representative In May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a proposed rule for a new microloan program within the existing Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) operating loan … Read More
Time Well Spent
As my time is Washington is quickly waning, it is hard to look back and believe that I have already been here for over two months. It seems like only … Read More
Biotechnology and the House Farm Bill
By Brittany Jablonsky, Government Relations Representative One area in which the farm bill draft recently passed by the House Committee on Agriculture differed significantly from the version of the bill … Read More
USDA Announces 2.0 Version of Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Compass
By Brittany Jablonsky, Government Relations Representative On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture unveiled an update to its Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Compass highlighting all of the ways … Read More
Extending Disaster Programs and NFU’s Response
By Brittany Jablonsky, NFU government relations representative Although NFU members have been feeling the effects of the drought all summer, it has only begun making headlines this week in the … Read More
Conserving and Restoring America's Natural Resources
Editor’s note: The following blog post is written by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. It is reposted here with permission. Every day, the work of the U.S. Department of … Read More
House Agriculture Committee passes FARRM Act
By NFU government relations staff It’s a mixed bag, but it’s progress. After a more than 13-hour-long markup, the House Agriculture Committee approved its version of the 2012 Farm Bill, … Read More
Supreme Court Upholds ACA
By Brittany Jablonsky, NFU government relations representative On Thursday the Supreme Court released its ruling on the constitutionality of the health reform law passed in 2010, the Affordable Care Act … Read More