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Spring is officially here, typically a time when all eyes look to the sky as key plantings begin across the Northern Hemisphere.   

Pressure is mounting on both the White House and Congress to provide a new round of payments to farmers.

Senate Ag Committee Chairman John Boozman is vowing to keep working with fellow panel members to get more financial aid to struggling farmers. Boozman acknowledged at a hearing Tuesday on finding new ag markets, “If you're putting something in the ground, you're probably losing money,” Boozman said in opening remarks at a hearing Tuesday on domestic ag markets.

The House Ag Committee’s new farm bill heads to the floor with some significant Democratic support behind it. Seven committee Democrats voted for the measure. But the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, Amy Klobuchar, says the legislation won’t attract Democratic votes in that chamber unless it addresses some SNAP cuts that Republicans forced through Congress last year.

Almost 100 agricultural groups and companies from across the sector are urging the Trump administration to back a U.S. candidate to lead the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the Navy could escort ships through the Persian Gulf has done little to stem the rise of fertilizer prices caused by the widening Middle East conflict.