The story that will perhaps have the longest impact on farm policy came late in 2017 with Congress approved its tax reform bill that included many provisions critical to agriculture.
Farm groups were happy to see the Trump administration direct the Environmental Protection Agency to start over with a new regulation to define a Water of the United States.
Perhaps no story was bigger this year than President Donald Trump’s selection of former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to be the nation’s 31st secretary of agriculture.
Perhaps no story was bigger this year than President Donald Trump’s selection of former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to be the nation’s 31st secretary of agriculture.
The Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for conservation grants in focus areas that could be a sign of things to come in the farm bill.