WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- The House Oversight and Reform Committee issued the following testimony by Association of American Indian Farmers President Kara Brewer Boyd involving a hybrid hearing on Sept. 15, 2022, entitled "Fueling the Climate Crisis: Examining Big Oil's Prices, Profits and Pledges": * * * I am Kara Brewer Boyd, Founder and President of the Association of American Indian Farmers (AAIF)./1 The AAIF has over 3,500 members across the United States. Our membership consists of full-t  more

STILLWATER, Oklahoma, Sept. 21 (TNSRes) -- Oklahoma State University issued the following news: Drought conditions are still a major factor right now as producers strategize when and how much wheat to sow over the next few weeks. A current lack of subsoil moisture limits wheat's potential to sprout and germinate, and some farmers may decide to "dust in" wheat. The Oklahoma State University Extension fact sheet on planting dual purpose wheat explains dusting it in as a technique that plants see  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Rep. Tracey Mann, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Tracey Mann (KS-01) released the following statement in response to the tentative deal that was reached early this morning between President Biden and the U.S. Railroad. "The United States economy should never be used as a bargaining chip," said Rep. Mann. "American producers need rail infrastructure for essential products like fertilizer and grain, which they use to keep our country fed.  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following remarks on Sept. 22, 2022, by Secretary Antony J. Blinken at the United Nations Security Council ministerial meeting on Ukrainian sovereignty and Russian accountability: * * * SECRETARY BLINKEN: (Via interpreter) Thank you very much, Madam President, for having brought this council together at this very grave moment of the crisis of the war of Russia on Ukraine. (In English) Mr. Secretary General, thank you for your determin  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 -- The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee issued the following statement by Citadel Securities Chief Legal Officer Heath P. Tarbert involving a hearing on Sept. 15, 2022, on the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act (S.4760): * * * Chairwoman Stabenow, Ranking Member Boozman, and distinguished members of this Committee, thank you for inviting me to speak today on the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act of 2022. I am honored to share my persp  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 (TNStalk) -- The U.S. Department of State issued the following foreign news center briefing on Sept. 21, 2022, by Cary Fowler, special envoy for global food security at the Office of Global Food Security, and Isobel Coleman, deputy administrator for policy and programming at the U.S. Agency for International Development, on combatting global food insecurity: * * * Summary * The current global food security crisis stems from the three Cs-climate change, COVID-19, and armed c  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. State Department issued the following Food Security Action Report on Sept. 21, 2022: * * * United States Demonstrates its Continued Commitment to International Food Security through a Food Security Action Report * * * Since launching the Roadmap for Global Food Security - Call to Action on May 18, 2022, the United States has continued to partner with governments, UN agencies, non-government organizations, industry, and stakeholders to deliver concret  more

KYIV, Ukraine, Sept. 21 -- The United Nations World Food Programme issued the following news release on Sept. 20, 2022: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and its partners have over the last few days distributed more than 70,000 food rations in Kharkiv oblast, 30,000 rations in Kherson oblast, and 500 rations in Luhansk oblast, reaching communities who have only just become accessible to humanitarian agencies. Most of the people that WFP and its partners reached in those areas had n  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 (TNStalk) -- The U.S. Agency for International Development issued the following issued the following foreign news center briefing on Sept. 22, 2022, by Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman and Cary Fowler, special envoy for global food security at the Department of State, on combatting food insecurity: * * * MODERATOR: Welcome to the New York Foreign Press Center's briefing on combatting food insecurity. I'm honored to welcome USAID Deputy Administrator for Policy and Program  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sept. 15 (TNSres) -- Yale University School of Public Health issued the following news: One of every six (15.73%) Ukrainian crop storage facilities, such as grain silos and elevators, has been damaged, destroyed, or controlled by Russia and its aligned forces since its invasion began on February 24, according to a new report released today by the Yale School of Public Health's (YSPH) Humanitarian Research Lab(HRL), in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy's Oa  more