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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Officials representing Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the United Nations met Wednesday in Istanbul in an effort to forge an agreement to allow Ukraine to resume exporting its corn, wheat and sunflower seed oil from the country’s primary ports, three of which are in Odesa.
A pair of senior House and Senate Democrats are offering legislation that would spin off the existing food safety functions of the Food and Drug Administration into a new, separate federal agency.
U.S. supermarket prices jumped 1% in June, led by continued increases in the cost of dairy and bakery products as well as fats and oils, helping fuel another 1.3% surge in the country's overall cost of living.
The 2018 farms bill’s main commodity programs will probably provide little help to most farmers who struggling this year with soaring production costs, but lawmakers included key provisions in the 2018 farm bill that could help growers significantly over the next few years.
Corn and sorghum growers are making the case that newly proposed restrictions on atrazine use will lead to their practicing less conservation tillage, resulting in reduced carbon sequestration at a time American agriculture is trying to make inroads in the fight against climate change.
The Moroccan phosphate giant OCP got a major boost to its effort to reenter the U.S. phosphate market at the U.S. Court of International Trade, but company executives say there may be more challenging legal battles ahead in a campaign that has fertilizer-dependent farmers on their side.
Increasing food production without using additional water and land resources could be possible through further developments in irrigation and water engineer, plant breeding and gene editing, and innovative management of things like heat and sunlight.