Andrew Zhang is a third year law student at Harvard Law School and a guest contributor to this blog. Earlier this November, with the passage of a continuing resolution that ended the longest government shutdown in United States history, Congress extended the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (the 2018 Farm Bill—the nation’s current and most recent Farm Bill) for one more year. This extension—the third of its kind since the 2018 Farm Bill first expired…
Andrew Zhang is a third year law student at Harvard Law School and a guest contributor to this blog. In the shadow of a government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) finds its conservation programs facing an uncertain future. In some respects, there may be areas of stability or relief. For one, despite the 2018 Farm Bill’s expiration this…
Andrew Zhang is a third year law student at Harvard Law School and a guest contributor to this blog. Americans are drinking a lot less milk. Despite production reaching an all-time high of 26.4 billion gallons in 2023, per capita milk consumption in the U.S. is down 47% from 1975. And, while consumption of dairy milk dropped by 4% between…
Rachael Lange is a second year student at Harvard Law School and a guest contributor to this blog. Bipartisan recognition of growing wildfire impacts across the country has led to the introduction of several wildfire-related bills that could become part of a future farm bill. The devastating wildfires in Southern California in early 2025, as well as the growing risk…