Tag: farm bill

The Farm Bill is often thought of as a policy that solely impacts farmers, but its implications go much further, directly affecting the lives of non-farming consumers and farmworkers.

Following yesterday’s U.S. election results, which return former President Donald Trump to the White House and reshape the 119th Congress, International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA) CEO Cathy Burns issued the following statement.

Hundreds from across the produce and floral supply chain convened this week in the nation’s capital, June 10-12, for the Washington Conference hosted by the International Fresh Produce Association.

Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack said farm bill negotiations and stances between the two parties show that a bipartisan bill looks far from imminent.

For long-time attendees of International Fresh Produce Association’s Washington Conference, the 2024 edition should feel new in several ways.

The U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee passed its version of the farm bill on May 23.

As IFPA launches a major campaign to preserve funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in the 2023 (whoops—2024) farm bill, it could be helpful to look back and see what is going on with it now.

The political outlook for 2024 and beyond was the subject of a Virtual Town Hall sponsored by the International Fresh Produce Association on November 29.

The big news to hit the agricultural community over the past few days is the one-year extension of the federal farm bill, enacted by Congress and signed by President Biden on November 16.

The produce industry might want to distinguish what it wants in the farm bill from what it can get.