House Committee on Agriculture Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Ranking Minority Member Collin Peterson yesterday convened a field hearing in Yakima, Washington to review federal farm policy. Roughly 75 local producers, agribusiness leaders, and agriculture officials attended the hearing. Seven Committee Members and three non-Committee Members of Congress attended Saturday’s hearing and heard from two p... Read more »
Chairman Bob Goodlatte today introduced a resolution, H. Con. Res. 424, setting a goal of producing 25 percent of the total energy consumed in the U.S. on America’s farms, ranches and forests by the year 2025 (25x’25). With current gas and energy prices remaining at elevated levels, the need for a sustainable, safe, and reliable energy supply is more evident. The resolution enjoys wide bipartisan ... Read more »
Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Dairy, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Gil Gutknecht held a public forum Wednesday, May 31, at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota to review the state of the Upper Midwest dairy industry. “The dairy industry has changed significantly in recent years. It can no longer be looked at from a regional perspective or even a domestic ... Read more »
Today, the House approved H.R. 4200, Forest Emergency Recovery and Research Act (FERRA), with large bipartisan support in a vote of 243-182. The bill provides a mechanism to quickly restore forests damaged by catastrophic events such as fires, ice storms, or hurricanes. The House Committee on Agriculture held a hearing to review the bill in December 2005 and favorably reported it out of Committee ... Read more »
House Committee on Agriculture Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Ranking Minority Member Collin Peterson today convened a field hearing in San Angelo, Texas to review the 2002 Farm Bill. Over 200 local producers, agribusiness leaders, and agriculture officials attended today’s hearing. Twelve Committee Members attended today’s hearing and heard from two panels of witnesses about a variety of farm policy ... Read more »
House Committee on Agriculture Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Ranking Minority Member Collin Peterson Monday, May 8, convened a field hearing in Greeley, Colorado to review the 2002 Farm Bill. Ten members of the Committee attended yesterday’s hearing and heard from two panels of witnesses about a variety of farm policy issues including commodity programs, farm economy, land prices, rural development, ... Read more »
GREELEY, CO – Today Chairman Bob Goodlatte announced the launch of a web-based farm bill feedback form on the House Committee on Agriculture website. The announcement was made at a farm bill field hearing in Greeley, Colorado early this morning. The web-based form allows producers throughout the nation to provide the Committee with feedback about current farm policy as well as input about the futu... Read more »
Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Chairman Jerry Moran convened a field hearing Monday evening in Coolidge, Arizona to review federal commodity programs. This was the Subcommittee’s second in a series of hearings to review various aspects of the 2002 Farm Bill which is set to expire in September 2007. Four Agriculture Committee Members attended the hearing and heard from... Read more »
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) issued the following statement after the announcement that US and Canadian officials had reached an agreement on softwood lumber trade. “I applaud the efforts of Deputy US Trade Representative Susan Schwab and Canada’s Ambassador to the US, the Honorable Michael Wilson, for their Herculean efforts to resolve this issue. US lumber producers ... Read more »
Today House Committee on Agriculture Chairman Bob Goodlatte chaired a hearing to review the role of futures markets in determining gasoline prices. Witnesses Walter Lukken, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner, and James Newsome, President and CEO of the New York Mercantile Exchange, testified that they had not discovered any manipulation or inappropriate activity in the futures marke... Read more »
