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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
WASHINGTON, June 5, 2017 – U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today said he made it clear to Canada that the Trump administration wants the country to drop key trade barriers to U.S. dairy and wheat.
ELK POINT, S.D., June 5, 2017 – The defamation lawsuit brought by a South Dakota meat processor against ABC News began Monday. Beef Products Inc. is suing ABC News and reporter Jim Avila for $1.9 billion, claiming the show caused the company to lose money after news reports in 2012 referred to their product as “pink slime.”
WASHINGTON, June 5, 2017 - Women involved in the agriculture sector from across the country descended on the nation’s capital this week for the American Agri-Women’s annual Legislative Fly-In.
WASHINGTON, June 4, 2017 - With Congress returning from a week-long recess, lawmakers this week will push back on President Trump’s proposals to gut international food aid programs.
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2017 - Agricultural shippers and other waterway users are struggling to talk the Trump administration out of relying on new tolls and user fees to pay for lock-and-dam reconstruction projects.
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2017 – U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says he's anxious to move quickly on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, stressing that his goal is to “do no harm” to exports of U.S. farm commodities and other goods to Mexico and Canada.
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2017 - Dow AgroSciences has paid Bayer CropScience $469.4 million to resolve a patent dispute over a gene conferring glufosinate resistance.
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2017 - USDA is moving decisively but cautiously to fulfill President Trump’s challenging directive to eliminate two regulations for every new one it issues.
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2017 - Farmers who don’t have access to conventional crop insurance are showing increasing interest in the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP), which was expanded by the 2014 farm bill.
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2017 - The results of the latest survey of U.S. beekeepers by the Bee Informed Partnership offer hope for the industry and for growers who depend on the tiny pollinators, but experts also caution not to read too much into the numbers.
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