State departments of transportation are getting $10 billion in long-awaited emergency aid from a $900 billion COVID – 19 Relief Bill passed by Congress late on December 21 as part of a final year-end legislative package.
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Category: Legislative Updates
Devin Lammers, President of Crop Marketing and Financial Services for Farmer’s Business Network, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of Gradable, shared his thoughts on the upcoming challenges faced by agriculture the next four years. He hails from South Dakota where his family has farmed and ranched for four generations.
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USDA Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation Bill Northey told AgriPulse the majority of work on implementing the 2018 farm bill is done as well the heavy lifting for the first two rounds of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program funding for a diverse group of farmers and ranchers across the nation. Ahead, Northey believes Congress should consider some mechanism for ad hoc assistance to be administered through USDA's Commodity Credit Corps. without additional legislative action. Northey believes CCC limits should be addressed in a new farm bill and believes a shift to climate-smart farm programs will include a number of conservation practices farmers are already implementing voluntarily. He says adequate broadband service is still an issue the Biden administration will need to address.
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House and Senate leadership continue to discuss government funding and coronavirus relief. Leadership indicated that Congress would not leave for the holidays until a relief bill is passed.
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President-elect Joe Biden's selection of Pete Buttigieg as his nominee for secretary of transportation is about more than planes, trains and automobiles. It's about climate change, an issue that the incoming president is weaving throughout his emerging administration.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced it is seeking public input about water quantity in the west related to existing Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) programs. Acting NRCS Chief Kevin Norton will host a virtual, open public listening session Thursday, December 17 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern. If additional time is deemed necessary to hear all input, a second session will be held Friday, December 18 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern.
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Measures of farm income this year will reach their highest levels since 2013 and 2014 on the surge in government aid through coronavirus relief and trade assistance, the Agriculture Department says.
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The owners and operators of more than half a million diesel pickup trucks have been illegally disabling their vehicles’ emissions control technology over the past decade, allowing excess emissions equivalent to 9 million extra trucks on the road, a new federal report has concluded.
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The president-elect is strongly considering Rahm Emanuel to run the Department of Transportation, weighing the former Chicago mayor’s experience on infrastructure spending against concerns from progressives over his policing record.
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The National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) sent a letter to President-Elect Joseph R. Biden, congratulating him on his election to the presidency.
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