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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, May 03, 2024
The prolonged drought in the upper Midwest is dragging down crop yields by more than the government or traders expected, although U.S. farmers should produce 4% more corn and 5% more soybeans this year than they did in 2020, according to the Agriculture Department's first survey-based estimates of the fall harvest.
Jenny Lester Moffitt has been confirmed as undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs at USDA, where she will oversee the Agricultural Marketing Service and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
California regulations that will require hog farms to provide sows with more housing space starting in 2022 will likely pose logistical challenges for pork exports while increasing production costs and raising retail prices, say producers and industry analysts.
Ranchers and gray wolf advocates are at odds over the practice of killing wolves to reduce conflicts with livestock, which, if numbers get low enough, could force the Fish and Wildlife Service to put the animals back on the endangered species list.
The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service announced that targeted cattle grazing successfully contained three rangeland wildfires in the Great Basin over a four-year period.
The Senate passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill that would provide $550 billion in new funding to repair America’s roads, bridges ports and waterways, while dramatically increasing high-speed internet access.
Time is growing short to address global climate change, whose impacts are being seen in more extreme weather events such as drought and heavier precipitation, and changes to agricultural practices could take decades to have an impact on carbon emissions, a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says.
Senate Democrats released a fiscal 2022 budget resolution that calls for $3.5 trillion in new spending, including as much as $135 billion for agriculture and child nutrition programs, funded largely by a border carbon tariff and tax increases on capital gains and high-earning individuals.
Some moderate Democrats in the sharply divided House are raising concerns about a planned $3.5 trillion reconciliation package and don’t want its passage tied to the fate of a bipartisan infrastructure bill.
John Deere announced Thursday that it bought Silicon Valley startup Bear Flag Robotics for $250 million, the company’s latest attempt to further develop its autonomous technology.
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