Climate-smart red line: “My red line on the farm bill is, we’re not going to hook the commodity program, commodity safety nets … with you being climate-smart enough where you don’t get to participate,” said Sen. John Boozman, senior Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, at the Agri-Pulse summit. (FERN’s Ag Insider)
Budget plan would hit WIC: One-fifth of WIC recipients, or 1.2 million people, would lose benefits under the spending cuts proposed by the House Freedom Caucus as part of discussions over the federal debt limit. (White House fact sheet)
House reviews formula shortage: Former FDA deputy commissioner Frank Yiannis, who left the agency in January, is to testify next Wednesday at a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on last year’s infant formula shortage. (House Oversight)
North Carolina allows digesters: An administrative law judge, rejecting a challenge by environmental groups, ruled that methane digesters can be built and operated on livestock farms under a general permit issued by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. (Meat and Poultry)
New market outlook archive: An archive, beginning in July 1975, of the weekly Grain and Livestock Outlook newsletter produced by University of Illinois economists, is now available at the farmdoc site. (Agricultural Economist Scott Irwin)