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• NRD Lawsuit over USDA GIS data Access

  
  GeoData Policy — Authority: 112
  Central Platte NRD Sues USDA Over Information Access By Robert PorePublished: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7:56 PM CDT …The NRD is trying to gain access to the USDA’s geographic information system, or GIS, data to help it provide guidance on irrigation practices, mapping of cropland and district decisions. … ...
  5 days ago

• Climate Legislation; EPA Issues; Biofuels; CRP; and Ag Trade Nomination

  
  FarmPolicy.com — Authority: 123
  Climate LegislationAn update posted yesterday at CQPolitics reported that, “Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works panel tried Tuesday morning to overcome a partisan standoff that could derail a major climate bill even before the committee votes.“But despite tentative overtures by ...
  5 days ago

• If At First You Don’t Succeed

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Mexican sugar growers want “in” on the cozy little arrangement that domestic sugar growers have here in the United States.  They have formed an alliance with the U.S sugar lobby to recommend that the U.S. and Mexican governments work to “avoid importing sugar from other countries to help boost the market ...
  6 days ago

• Climate Legislation; Farm Bill; Crop Insurance; Biofuels; Food Stamps; CFTC Issues; and EU Issues

  
  FarmPolicy.com — Authority: 123
  Senate Climate Hearing, Day TwoDTN Ag Policy Editor Chris Clayton reported yesterday that, “Senators and industry groups argued over the impact a mandatory cap-and-trade market would have on energy costs and subsequent jobs and the economy in a second day of hearings on a potential climate and energy bill.“The ...
  1 week ago

• Will good karma be enough for Good Humus?

  
  Legal Ruralism — Authority: 131
  As much as I would like my every meal to be from In-n-Out, the desire to live past 40 compels me to eat vegetables. This fall, I’ve been receiving a CSA (community support agriculture, where a customer pays a flat fee to a farm and receives a weekly supply of vegetables and fruit that varies according season and ...
  1 week ago

• Climate Legislation; Farm Bill- Executive Branch Issues; Biofuels; Food Labeling; Food Security; and Milk Production

  
  FarmPolicy.com — Authority: 123
  Climate LegislationDarren Samuelsohn of ClimateWire reported yesterday at The New York Times Online that, “The fence is getting a bit more crowded.“Despite two significant moves over the last month — a bill introduction and the emergence of a possible bipartisan partnership — the number of senators unwilling ...
  2 weeks ago

• Remembering a farmer, advocate, and friend

  
  Oxfam America Blog — Authority: 483
  Jim French is a regional advocacy lead and an agricultural specialist for Oxfam America. He is also a fifth-generation farmer and rancher in south-central Kansas. Last week, our friend Terry Steinhour died in a tractor accident while moving hay on his farm. Along with my colleagues Rasa Dawson and Katie Danko, I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Climate Legislation; Food Security; Ag Economy; ACRE- Crop Insurance; C.O.O.L.; Animal Agriculture; USDA Issues; and Sen. Lincoln

  
  FarmPolicy.com — Authority: 123
  Climate LegislationReuters writers Louis Charbonneau and Gerard Wynn reported yesterday that, “Official Washington sounded more upbeat on Monday than it has for weeks in sizing up U.S. President Barack Obama’s chances of progress on a climate-change bill in Congress this year.“U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer ...
  3 weeks ago

• Criminally Negligent Homicide: The Legacy of Wealthy Nations That Allow Millions to Die

  
  Abesha Bunna Bet — Authority: 134
  Two award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters, Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman, have collaborated on a new book entitled Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. It is a page turner. Unless you simply don’t give a damn, this is a must read, and it is a must read now. It’s reality ...
  4 weeks ago

• $13 Million Awarded from the Rural Energy for America Program

  
  Renewable + Law — Authority: 117
  In an earlier blog, my colleagues, Debra Frimerman and Janet Jacobs reported about the Rural Energy for America Program (“REAP”), in general and specifically in regards to small wind projects .  REAP is a Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) program that provides grants and loan guarantees to agricultural ...
  7 weeks ago

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