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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Key senators are seeking to waive rules that sharply increase the cost of shipping U.S. food assistance overseas at the same time anti-hunger groups are set to call for far more aid than the Biden administration has requested so far to address the developing global food crisis.
The U.S. could be selling a lot more grain, meat and produce to the UK, and the British are seeking a trade agreement. American farm groups are cheering on the effort, but the Biden administration is still playing hard to get.
Eight midwestern governors are asking the Environmental Protection Agency allow their states to sell E15 blends of ethanol year round, even if the product remains restricted in the rest of the country.
When the Russian military invasion cut off Ukraine’s ability to export sunflower oil and wheat, it helped push “a cascading food crisis around the world,” according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Agency for U.S. Agency for International Development. Now Indonesia, which last week banned the export of palm oil, is exacerbating the conditions that are driving global shortages and price spikes of vegetable oil.
Negotiations are underway to sell The National Grange's 11-story building, which is located only a block from the White House, continuing the trend for many farm groups that have gotten out of owning real estate.
Farmer sentiment improved in April with commodity prices spiking amid Russia’s war in Ukraine, but producers increasingly worry about the steep increases in input costs, a monthly survey shows.
A new report by the AGree initiative and The Data Foundation assesses several ways to protect the privacy of USDA data that’s used to assess the impact of farming practices.
Economists have raised their forecast for farm income this year. As a result, farm earnings are expected to be about the same this year as last, despite sharp increases in production costs.