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Producers with Crop Insurance to Receive Premium Benefit for Cover Crops

USDA rolled out its Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities pilot program this week, offering a chance for businesses and other organizations to create voluntary market incentives on working lands to measure, quantify and verify practices that lower or minimize emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gases. Among the goals is the prospect of premiums for how producers grow their products, which could include a potential USDA label.

This report provides a snapshot of the US Executive Branch priorities via daily schedules and the prior day's press releases.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced funding for pilot projects geared toward curbing greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture.

This report provides a snapshot of the U.S. Executive Branch priorities via daily schedules and the prior day's press releases.

"My people are not talking about climate change," said a Republican lawmaker.

The U.S. and Russia clashed again yesterday in a dispute pitting the West against President Vladimir Putin, who refuses to call off troops massed at the Ukraine border. Across the pond, the U.K. may soon be seeking a new prime minister after a bombshell report detailed secret parties at Downing Street at the height of COVID-19 lockdowns. The hate crime trial of two of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers will proceed after a U.S. district court judge rejected a plea deal. And in Ecuador, an oil spill threa...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will invest $1 billion in projects that encourage farmers, ranchers and owners of forested land to employ practices that help mitigate the effects of climate change by lowering greenhouse gas emissions or catching and storing carbon, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack said. The new program is called the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced funding for pilot projects geared toward curbing greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the United States Department of Agriculture is investing $1 billion in partnerships to support climate-smart farmers.