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Stabenow, Roberts release farm bill proposal

WASHINGTON — Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and ranking member Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, recently released a farm bill proposal and announced that the committee will begin consideration of the bill on Wednesday.

By Jerry Hagstrom , April 24, 2012

Ag leaders want farm bill this year

WASHINGTON — The four leaders of the congressional agriculture committees presented a united front that they will work together to pass a new farm bill this year when they met with agricultural journalists on April 17.

By Jerry Hagstrom , April 23, 2012

Nutrition programs debated

WASHINGTON — Healthy eating advocates and anti-hunger groups are mounting vigorous campaigns to maintain food stamp benefits and programs to increase access to fruits and vegetables and other nutritious foods in the farm bill, but they differ on whether quality of foods or benefit levels should be the highest priority.

By Jerry Hagstrom , April 16, 2012

ND Senators promote RLAP

ND Senators promote RLAP BISMARCK, N.D. — Cooperation with southern Republican senators representing peanut, cotton and rice growers will be a key to whether a Revenue Loss Assistance Program can be passed in the Senate, said officials gathered for a roundtable on the 2012 farm bill.

By Mikkel Pates , April 09, 2012

Budget deliberations

Budget deliberations WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said March 20 he will review how farm groups that reacted negatively to President Barack Obama’s proposed budget cuts in farm programs react to the $30 billion cut over 10 years that House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., proposed, while House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., said he would be careful about “reading too much” into either Obama or Ryan’s budgets.

By Jerry Hagstrom , March 26, 2012

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Ryan budget cuts $180 billion from farm bill programs

Ryan budget cuts $180 billion from farm bill programs WASHINGTON — Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said March 21 that the budget proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would cut the Agriculture Department budget by $180 billion over 10 years and hurt programs important to North Dakota while other Democrats and farm leaders also criticized the Ryan proposal.

By Jerry Hagstrom , March 22, 2012

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Conrad's farm bill concerns

Conrad's farm bill concerns WASHINGTON — The issue of whether proposed farm bill commodity programs would work in the Northern Plains remain to be resolved in Senate Agriculture Committee negotiations, Jim Miller, a former Agriculture Secretary for farm and foreign agricultural services and key aide to Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said March 13 in an interview with Agweek.

By Jerry Hagstrom , March 19, 2012

Spuds, science and success

The U.S, potato industry enjoyed a lot of success in 2011, including rising consumption and a big win on a controversial proposal that would have limited spuds in school cafeterias, potato boosters say.

By Jonathan Knutson , February 15, 2012

Study says 1 in 13 U.S. children have food allergy

CHICAGO — Food allergies affect about one in 13 U.S. children, double the latest government estimate, a new study suggests.

By Lindsey Tanner , June 22, 2011

Common goals, different countries

NAIROBI, Kenya — Gene White, a former director of child nutrition for California, and Namanga Ngongi, president of the agriculture development effort in Nairobi, Kenya, an undertaking started by the Seattle -based Gates Foundation, come from different worlds, but they have a dream in common: that every child in Africa will be offered a school lunch and that as much of the food as possible will be produced by local farmers.

By Jerry Hagstrom , May 23, 2011

Nutrition bill good, but could be better

SAN FRANCISCO — The child-nutrition bill signed into law by President Obama in December is less than ideal.

February 01, 2011

Serving up new standards

WASHINGTON — School meals can shift toward healthier foods that will involve changes in school food purchasing patterns as early as next fall under a proposed rule to update the nutrition standards for meals served through the national school lunch and breakfast programs that the Agriculture Department published in the Federal Register on Jan. 13.

By Jerry Hagstrom , January 18, 2011

Congress sends child nutrition bill to Obama

WASHINGTON — More children would eat lunches and dinners at school under legislation passed Thursday by the House and sent to the president, part of first lady Michelle Obama's campaign to end childhood hunger and fight childhood obesity.

By Mary Clare Jalonick , December 02, 2010

Child nutrition program bill will be addressed following election

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives failed to reauthorize the child nutrition programs with a big increase in funding for school lunch programs before leaving for a recess, but a key House Democratic aide said Sept. 29 that House leadership “will push hard for a vote in the lame duck” session after the election and a spokesman for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack also said the Obama administration would push Congress to finish the bill.

By Jerry Hagstrom , October 05, 2010

Child nutrition bill awaits action as program expires Sept. 30

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives left the Capitol without acting on a child nutrition bill that would increase purchases of fruits and vegetables, whole grain, low-fat dairy and meat products for the schools, but the bill could come up again before the child nutrition programs expire on Sept. 30.

By Jerry Hagstrom , September 28, 2010

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