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Trump signs order to keep meat plants in operation during pandemic
Advocates slam Trump order to keep meatpacking plants open
Environmentalists, labor groups, and animal rights advocates on Tuesday condemned President Trump's planned executive order to keep meatpacking plants open, despite reported outbreaks of Covid-19 at more than 60 of these plants across the country.
SNAP eligibility rules will tighten despite coronavirus outbreak
At the same time he raised the possibility of pandemic benefits, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said on Tuesday that stricter SNAP time limits will take effect, as scheduled, on April 1 for able-bodied adults. House Democrats have suggested higher benefits and broader SNAP availability to carry low-income workers through quarantines and economic disruptions due to the new coronavirus.
Trump proposals for SNAP cuts add up to $230 billion, says think tank
Trump backs high-speed internet access, ‘especially’ in rural America
USDA has chronic data issues, experts say
States will gain power over water in WOTUS replacement, says Trump
Senate to give Trump a trade victory days before impeachment trial
Near-unanimous Senate approval, ‘hopefully soon,’ predicted for USMCA
Grassley has good words for ‘Tariff Man’
Why don’t we know how much livestock farms pollute the air?
America's thousands of confinement livestock operations pollute the air every day with chemicals like ammonia, methane, and hydrogen sulfide. Yet no one tracks exactly how much air pollution these farms produce, according to FERN's latest story, published with The Nation.<strong>(No paywall)</strong>
A deal on USMCA, but final approval will wait until 2020
Farmers expect trade deal soon, but Trump says maybe not
Trump proposals would shear SNAP rolls by 9 percent
Farmers support trade war despite their financial losses
Growing portion of Democratic ‘aggies’ supports investigation of Trump
As Trump delays tariffs, he says China wants to buy US ag exports
Trump ready to spend again on farmers, who expect to win trade war
House conservatives would rewrite farm supports in Trump’s name
Congress would cut off crop subsidies to wealthy farmers and require growers to pay at least half of the cost of crop insurance premiums if it adopted the policies proposed by Donald Trump when he was president, said the Republican Study Committee in its budget outline for this fiscal year. The group, which speaks for social and fiscal conservatives, said its budget "adopts many of the reforms proposed by the Trump administration to reform and streamline federal spending on agricultural programs."