Agriculture

Welch highlights new bicameral federal legislation to ensure farmers can fix their own equipment  WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) outlined how President Trump’s global trade war has wreaked havoc on the United States’ agricultural…

Hawley and Welch’s Keep SNAP Funded Act would protect millions of Americans from losing SNAP during shutdown  WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) tonight cosponsored Senator Josh Hawley’s (R-Mo.) Keep SNAP Funded Act, which would ensure nutrition assistance will continue despite the ongoing government shutdown.…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and 42 colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to release the billions of dollars at…

ORWELL, VT — Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, joined Vermont farmers, state officials, and the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT) at Lazy Dog Farm in Orwell to hear from…

ORWELL, VT — On Friday, October 17th at 11:00 AM, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, will join Addison County farmers and legislators at Lazy Dog Farm in Orwell for a drought-impact tour…