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Maintaining crop insurance important component of future farm bill safety net.

Maintaining crop insurance important component of future farm bill safety net.

Cheri Bustos, D- Illinois, issued the following news release on Dec. 3, 2021:. Congresswoman Cheri Bustos, Chair of the General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee, held a roundtable with stakeholders of the federal crop insurance program. Participants included Members of the House Agriculture Committee, Marva...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The CFTC and the DOJ both now pursue enforcement actions against trading in commodities based on misappropriation of confidential information. Among the many changes resulting from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act), one that has been slow to develop, but broad in its significance, is the assertion of authority by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to police insider trading and misappropriation of confidential information in c...

The House Agriculture Committee passed the $16.1 billion agriculture and nutrition provisions of the budget reconciliation legislation which moves forward President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package. It passed on a party-line 25-23 vote with Republicans complaining that they had been left out of the process.  The legislation addresses the “long standing and widespread discrimination against socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers” regarding USDA’s farm loan programs by providing debt relief and assistance for Black farmers and other minority farmers. Republicans ...