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The grants are part of the President Biden administration's pledge to create ways to tamper down the sky-high cost of food.

There's now a two-step plan in place that extends funding until January 19th for some federal agencies and February 2nd for others.

“Eastern Washington is the perfect example of what’s possible"

China only accounted for one percent of the 40 million acres of U.S. Forest and farmland owned by foreign investors as of 2021.

The House passed one of the necessary bills on party lines that has no chance of approval in the Senate, while the Senate hasn't passed any of the measures.

The measure would change the Federal Crop Insurance Act to cover financial losses from grapes being exposed to wildfire smoke.

Earlier this month, central Washington’s Dan Newhouse led his House colleagues in the introduction of the Prohibition of Agricultural Land for the People’s Republic of China Act.  The legislation would prohibit the purchase of public or private agricultural land in the United States by foreign nationals associated with the Government of the People’s Republic of China.  The Chair of the Western ...

We’re roughly three weeks away from a new Congress being sworn in.  But before that happens, Dan Newhouse is hopeful the current Congress will take up the issue of Ag labor.  The Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which has cleared the U.S. House twice, currently...

Agriculture groups welcomed President Biden's call on Congress to avert a potential rail worker strike.   Corey Rosenbusch of The Fertilizer Institute praised the action by Biden, adding, “Congress must act now to ensure that fertilizers and other critical materials and goods that U.S. consume...

The National Milk Producers Federation sent a letter to lawmakers, including Oregon's Ron Wyden, asking for support of domestic infant formula production as the shortfalls that emptied store shelves of formula have eased.  NMPF said given the improving situation, tariff waivers that could discourage the production of a safe, secure domestic infant formula supply should be allowed to expire at the