Articles Tagged with ''AFBF''

The margins on almost every major crop are set to fall this marketing year, the American Farm Bureau Federation is warning, as rising input costs and trade uncertainty squeeze producers and deepen the need for further assistance.  

The American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual survey shows consumers will pay 5% less for Thanksgiving dinner this year than in 2024, despite an increase in wholesale turkey prices. It is the third straight decline in the cost of Thanksgiving dinner after a record high in 2022.

Water levels in parts of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers are expected to soon reach critically low stages in the face of autumn dryness, forcing shippers to light-load harvest-season grain barges for the fourth year in a row.

Lawmakers and farm leaders have a variety "skinny" farm bill priorities.

Trump administration officials met with farm leaders at the White House Wednesday, according to a summary of the meeting provided by the White House.

Faith Parum joined the American Farm Bureau Federation as an economist. Wayne Stoskopf was promoted to senior director of public policy for risk management and legislative strategy at the National Corn Growers Association. CropLife America hired Tonya Parish as senior manager of government relations communications. 

The National Corn Growers Association Corn Board elected Michigan farmer Matt Frostic as the organization's first vice president. Robin Bowen joined Elanco as director of U.S. government affairs. Sarah Dean joined PepsiCo as director of global public policy, sustainability reporting and human rights. 

Congressional Republicans return from a one-week recess under pressure to reach agreement on a budget reconciliation plan, while the Trump administration will listen to concerns about its push to promote domestic shipbuilding.

Delegates attending the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual resolutions session updated several policies and went into executive session to modify their organization’s bylaws, in what many assumed was an effort to clarify membership guidelines and address potential outcomes of an ongoing legal dispute with Illinois Farm Bureau.

House Agriculture  Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson indicated Monday he wants to limit cuts to SNAP that Republicans will try to make through the budget reconciliation process. But the panel’s new top Democrat, Rep. Angie Craig, questioned whether he can hold the line and warned that a deep reduction could ultimately doom a new farm bill. She also said the committee's farm bill last year was skewed to benefit southern farmers. 

American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall kicked off his organization’s 106^th annual meeting by highlighting member engagement stories and policy priorities, including ensuring that Congress provided much needed disaster aid and financial support at the end of last year