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Biden and his Cabinet prep to hit the road to tout "Bidenomics."

The draft bill to fund the USDA and FDA “may” be considered in the Rules Committee this week, a major step as Congress hurdles the Sept. 30 government funding deadline — and the looming threat of a government shutdown.

Randy Feenstra and Angie Craig are introducing new legislation to provide beginning producers and veterans with better access to crop insurance.

Sen. Peter Welch might be new to the upper chamber, but he’s no stranger to the challenges facing rural America, and especially the fight for broadband internet access.

And the administration struggles to find an NIH director.

More than a dozen farm groups including Farm Aid and the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition are rallying for resilience this week.

Skyrocketing food prices and growing widespread hunger have roiled geopolitics, food systems and commodity markets for the past year.

And the Senate reaches 100 judges confirmed under Biden.

The push on Capitol Hill for the federal government to crackdown on Chinese and other foreign entities buying U.S. farmland, sometimes close to military installations, is reaching a fever pitch.

She currently leads USDA’s rural development branch.