MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, discusses how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has initiated an unprecedented re-review of a critically important pesticide, which threatens its continued availability to farmers and ranchers. Atrazine is a pesticide that has been used safely and eff... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov An op-ed in The New York Times today highlights concerns that many in the agriculture community have about the far-reaching impact of the Dodd-Frank Act. Of particular concern is how the law's derivatives language will affect the way farmers and ranchers manage risk. Producers depend on the use of derivatives to protect them ... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov Today, Ranking Member Frank Lucas, along with six of his colleagues on the House Agriculture Committee, introduced a bill (H.R. 6087), which clarifies that the use of a pesticide consistent with its registration under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) should not be subject to a costly, redundant,... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. Adrian Smith, discusses how President Obama's new health care law negatively affects farmers, ranchers, and small businesses. Section 9006 of the law requires that all businesses file a 1099 with the Internal Revenue Service for every vendor with which it has more than $600 in t... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, Ranking Member Frank Lucas discusses how the Democratic leadership could use the lame-duck session of Congress - the time between the election in November and the swearing-in of the 112th Congress - to pass a national energy tax. Ranking Member Lucas calls on his Democratic colleagues to refrai... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, Ranking Member Frank Lucas discusses how the Democratic leadership in Congress has failed to address the critical issue of estate taxes. As a result, our next generation of farmers and ranchers do not know how much they will owe in taxes this year and cannot effectively plan for 2011. Click her... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov A report from CNBC explains the negative impact the Dodd-Frank Act will have on our farmers and ranchers on the day President Obama signed the bill into law. In the report, a rancher from Wyoming discusses how there could be fewer hedging opportunities, which will increase the cost of doing business. To watch the complete vid... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. Randy Neugebauer, discusses the proposed new rule by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration and some of the concerns American producers are raising about its potential impact. Rep. Neugebauer, the Ranking Member of the Subcom... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov With the Senate poised to bring the financial reform bill up for a final vote as early as Thursday, the far-reaching impact of the bill on the overall economy is still being understood. As reported in The Wall Street Journal today, the legislation was designed to fix the problems caused by Wall Street, but the final bill will... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, Ranking Member Frank Lucas discusses how the U.S. Senate is expected to consider a climate change and energy bill before the end of the month. Ranking Member Lucas further explains how the proposals the Senate will consider would result in a national energy tax that would be devastating to the ... Read more »
