Articles Tagged with ''China''

Biofuel industry groups are welcoming passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the historic package of nearly $370 billion in climate-related funding.

A member of the House Agriculture Committee wrote a letter Monday to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack with questions about data on foreign land purchases within the United States.

The House and Senate will soon start negotiating differences between their two approaches to increase U.S. competitiveness abroad. 

Minority farmers and producers considered to be historically underserved by federal programs, including beginning farmers, received less than 4% of the payments provided by the Trump administration’s Market Facilitation Program, according to the Government Accountability Office.

President Joe Biden assured the American Farm Bureau Federation that his administration is addressing farmers' concerns about rising production costs and supply chain disruptions, while Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said China would be pushed to fulfill its purchasing commitments under the "phase one" trade agreement. 

Democrats hope to get President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill to the finish line in December, but first they face a more urgent stalemate with Republicans ahead of Friday’s expiration of a stopgap funding bill.

U.S. poultry has only regained access to the Chinese chicken market for about a year and a half, but trade is booming and the U.S. was the number-one supplier to China in the last two months of 2020.

Germany confirmed three cases of African swine fever in farm pigs last week, according to Reuters.

China will no longer require small hog farmers to seek environmental approval before breeding pigs in an effort to rebuild its hog herd following widespread outbreaks of African Swine Fever, according to Reuters.