The Administration is asking Congress for $33 billion to address food shortages caused by the war in Ukraine and to assist Ukraine. Of that total, $500 million will go toward making temporary changes to farm bill programs for the remaining two years of its authorization. Provisions include:
$400 million for higher marketing loan rates for crops typically in food aid packages – wheat, rice, pulses, soybeans, sunflower, and canola; marketing loans would be extended to 12 months from their current 9; and $100 million for crop insurance incentives at $10 per acre to incentivize double cropping soybeans planted after a winter wheat in 2023 to increase winter wheat production.
USDA’s rationale is that extend...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
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