Farm bill

The House has passed an almost $100 billion-a-year, compromise farm bill that would make small cuts to food stamps and continue generous subsidies for the nation's farmers.

Beltway Confidential

Cato nukes the crony capitalism of farm subsidies

Tom Rogan · April 12, 2018 5:28 pm

Republicans lose top entitlement reform cheerleader in Paul Ryan

Robert King · April 11, 2018 10:28 pm

Congress set to battle over food stamps work requirement

Susan Ferrechio · April 9, 2018 4:01 am

Energy and Environment

No more ‘second-class’ treatment, rural utility providers tell Congress

John Siciliano · April 9, 2018 4:01 am

In this photo from 2012, a broadband tower rises into the sky in Plainfield, Vt.

Rural broadband could get a lot faster with new farm bill

Steven Nelson · March 22, 2018 9:44 pm

Don’t cut families out of the farm bill

Don’t cut families out of the farm bill

catherine-lacour and joel-gasper · March 6, 2018 5:01 am

Author Wendell Berry is most famous for his writings about the need to live in harmony with the Earth. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)

Take Wendell Berry’s advice: Protect food integrity

Marty Irby · March 2, 2018 11:09 pm

The next fight over the tax credit will more than likely come in the farm bill. (Micah Walter/Bloomberg News)

Beltway Confidential

Biofuel boom: Budget deal gives away $2.6 billion to biodiesel industry

Philip Wegmann · February 12, 2018 6:08 pm

Thanks to the U.S. sugar program, sugar beet and sugar cane farmers have had the advantage of minimum prices, cheap loans, and tariffs to keep out competitors — all at taxpayer expense. (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

Sugar subsidies are anything but sweet

Yael Ossowski · February 6, 2018 9:24 pm

Some analysts predict big gains for Democrats in November - even a takeover in the House, where Republicans have held the majority since 2010 and now enjoy a 21-seat advantage.

GOP agenda runs up against the midterms

Susan Ferrechio · January 9, 2018 5:01 am

Supporting misguided stall tactics in sugar policy like "zero-for-zero" effectively hands over control of U.S. economic policy - and Americans' wallets - to corrupt foreign governments like that of Thailand. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Big Sugar’s ‘zero for zero’ scam

David Williams · December 16, 2017 5:01 am

International commerce is the foundation of our region's economy and essential to the long-term well-being of Louisiana. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

America must not turn its back on trade

Caitlin Cain · November 15, 2017 5:01 am