Articles Tagged with ''World Trade Organization''

The Biden administration is moving ahead with its plan to finance new meat processing capacity.

In this opinion piece, Sharon Bomer Lauritsen with AgTrade Strategies LLC and Bart Fischer with Texas A&M University discuss their support of comprehensive agriculture negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is beginning the process of establishing the first regulations for protecting workers from heat.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., insists that Democratic leaders are on track to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill this week while also reaching agreement on President Biden’s Build Back Better bill.

Food prices shot up in September, prompting a new volley from the White House over consolidation in the meat industry.

Democrats on the House Ag Committee are appealing to their party leaders to protect agriculture spending when they slash the size of the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better bill.

We’ve got some more detail on Democrats’ plans for using their huge Build Back Better bill to promote cover crops and other forms of climate-smart agriculture. Agri-Pulse obtained a draft amendment to the bill that authorizes the $28 billion in conservation funding.

Senate Republicans have forced Democrats to go on the record as protecting existing tax benefits when it comes to transferring farm assets from one generation to the next.

USDA is providing a fresh update on its plans for issuing some widely anticipated new regulations.

Senate Democrats are proposing a tariff on carbon-intensive imports that critics say could increase farm production costs and invite retaliation by countries that would see the tax as unfairly protectionist.