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A farm group leader is keeping a watchful eye on the 2023 growing season as input availability becomes a top-of-mind issue for producers across the country.

The Biden administration will be naming Alexis Taylor, a former deputy undersecretary at USDA, to be the department’s top trade official, sources informed of the decision tell Agri-Pulse.

Farmers are struggling this spring with sky-high production costs, but the bigger concern is whether there will be enough fertilizer and other inputs to go around for next season

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is in Germany through this weekend for meetings with his G7 counterparts.

Ukrainian farmers will begin harvesting millions of acres of winter wheat in July, but if Ukraine is unable to export it, the country’s economy will likely collapse and the hundreds of millions of people that depend on receiving that grain will suffer even worse than they are now, United Nations World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley said Wednesday.

President Biden is announcing new measures today to address food price increases and the war in Ukraine.

President Joe Biden is taking new steps to address spikes in food prices and ag inputs after lawmakers declined to include his proposed crop incentives in a $40 billion supplemental spending bill for the war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian farmers are short on diesel, fertilizer and manpower. They’ve been bombed, occupied, had their fields mined and silos and tractors destroyed by the Russian military. They've even had their grain robbed and sold overseas while they themselves are struggling to export because of a Russian blockade at ports, sources tell Agri-Pulse.