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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, May 18, 2024
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2017 – CHS Inc., a farmer-owned cooperative that supplies energy, crop nutrients, animal feed, insurance and other services to U.S. agricultural producers, is once again the country’s top revenue producing cooperative.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2017 - Producers’ optimism about the future of the agricultural economy fell in September, according to a sub-index of the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2017 – Beginning this week, USDA will be making approximately $8 billion in 2017 payments to producers through the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs, and $1.6 billion under Conservation Reserve (CRP) programs.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2017 - The Senate confirmed the nominations of Steve Censky to become deputy agriculture secretary and Ted McKinney to be the Agriculture Department’s first undersecretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs.
WASHINGTON, Sep. 28, 2017 – Congressional Democrats held a news conference on Capitol Hill Thursday to highlight their $40 billion plan to bring high-speed internet service to all Americans.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2017 - Jay Vroom says he’s retiring as CropLife America’s president and CEO at the end of 2018. That would give him more than 30 years at the helm of the largest U.S. trade organization representing manufacturers and distributors of agricultural pesticides.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2017 – Organizations representing producers of U.S. corn, soybeans and wheat offered strong support for legislation introduced in the Senate today that would double funding for two federal cost-share programs designed to spur overseas demand for the nation’s three biggest crops and other agricultural products.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2017 - Post Holdings, the maker of Honey Bunches of Oats and Grape-Nuts cereals, is buying Bob Evans Farms for $77 a share, a deal valued at about $1.5 billion.
WASHINGTON, September 20, 2017 - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is urging U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to “directly engage” with the Brazilian government to end Brazil’s recently reinstated 20 percent tariff on ethanol imports in excess of 600 million liters annually.
