*Yesterday’s Farm Policy News Summary incorrectly stated that House Agriculture Committee Democrats had proposed their own Farm Bill. The story has been corrected to say that House Ag Committee Democrats offered a counter proposal to Chairman GT Thompson’s Farm Bill funding proposal. We regret the error. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Reuters reported that “the U.S. Department of Agriculture […]
Nutrition
Senate Resolution Blocks Paraguay Beef Imports
The Nebraska Examiner’s Jacob Fischler reported this past week that “the U.S. Senate easily passed a resolution Thursday to repeal a Biden administration rule allowing for beef to be imported from Paraguay.” “The resolution targets a final rule the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued in November that allowed for importation […]
FAO Report: Global Hunger is on the Rise Again
An update on Friday from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations indicated that, “After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, or 11 percent of the global population, says a new edition of the annual United Nations report on world food security and nutrition released today. At the same time, multiple forms of malnutrition are threatening the health of millions worldwide.”