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USDA challenges, delays organic livestock rule

11/09/17 11:52 AM By Philip Brasher

The Trump administration is further delaying new animal-welfare standards for organic livestock and poultry production, and USDA officials are raising concerns about the legal and economic justification for the regulations developed under the Obama administration.

High stakes for milk producers as they await Congress, USDA actions

11/08/17 6:52 AM By Philip Brasher

A series of pending decisions from USDA and Congress over coming weeks could leave milk producers with a significantly stronger new financial safety net, if the actions fall the way the industry hopes.

Farmers seek changes in House GOP tax bill

11/08/17 6:45 AM By Philip Brasher

House Republicans are getting pushback on provisions of they tax reform plan that could increase self-employment taxes for many farms.

Washington Week Ahead: Lawmakers start debate on GOP tax bill

11/04/17 10:52 PM By Philip Brasher

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, 2017 - House Republicans will seek to push their tax reform plan through committee this week, knowing it likely faces significant changes in the Senate to meet its budget rules.

Business rules seen raising some farm tax bills

11/03/17 7:43 PM By Philip Brasher

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2017 - The House GOP tax bill’s new rules for partnerships and other “pass-through” small businesses, together with new requirements for paying self-employment taxes, could significantly offset some of the legislation’s benefit to farms, experts say.

Wins, some losses, in GOP tax bill for farmers

11/02/17 4:59 PM By Philip Brasher

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2017 - The House Republican tax-reform bill would preserve interest expensing for most farmers and would phase out the estate tax, but some producers would lose a tax deduction that their cooperatives pass on to them.

US shippers decry decline in food aid

11/01/17 6:45 AM By Philip Brasher

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2017 - The U.S. shipping industry is facing a vicious circle. A decline in shipments of American food aid is causing the fleet to shrink. Now, lawmakers are citing that dwindling fleet as a reason to further reduce the amount of food aid shipped via U.S-flag carriers.

Washington Week Ahead: Farmers have much at stake as House GOP rolls out tax plan

10/29/17 8:17 AM By Philip Brasher

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29, 2017 - House Republicans reveal the details of their tax reform plan this week as GOP leaders mount an ambitious pre-Thanksgiving campaign to get tax bills through both chambers before the holiday.

Ibach confirmed to USDA post

10/26/17 5:04 PM By Philip Brasher

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2017 - The Senate on Thursday confirmed a second new undersecretary for the Agriculture Department, Nebraska Agriculture Director Greg Ibach, who will oversee the department’s marketing and regulatory programs.

New farmworker visa program squeaks through panel

10/25/17 5:19 PM By Philip Brasher

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2017 - The House Judiciary Committee narrowly approved a proposed new agricultural guestworker program after two days of heated debate that saw Democrats take a page from President Trump's campaign playbook and argue that the plan would undercut U.S. wages by importing low-cost labor.

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Kailee Tkacz Buller, President and CEO of the National Oilseed Processors Association

This week’s Open Mic guest is Kailee Tkacz Buller, President and CEO of the National Oilseed Processors Association. The nation’s oilseed processing industry has rapidly been expanding capacity to meet growing demand for their products. Many new plants have been built, others are under construction and additional processing capacity could be added pending public policy decisions. Buller says renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel hold tremendous opportunities for further oilseed industry expansion. Buller hopes 40Z tax credit rules will include more acceptable climate smart production practices and less bundling. NOPA opposes policies that place caps on vegetable oil capacity and encourage imports of used cooking oil from foreign countries.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: May 10, 2024: Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., on farm bill, rural broadband

South Dakota Republican Dusty Johnson sits on the House Agriculture Committee, which will mark up a farm bill on May 23. He joins this week’s show to discuss the latest developments on the farm bill and what the next few weeks will look like. He also dives deeper into the rural broadband efforts.

Then, Joby Young with the American Farm Bureau Federation and Jonathan Coppess with the Gardner Agriculture Policy Program at the University of Illinois join this week’s show to discuss the political environment around a farm bill.

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