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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Christa Lachenmayr, a senior agricultural economist at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has been appointed the Commission’s liaison to the Department of Agriculture.
President Donald Trump says the United States should look into ending trade deal provisions that allow for the imports of live cattle into the country, a remark that will surely catch the attention of North American trading partners.
Phil Karsting, a Nebraska native with experience on Capitol Hill, at USDA, and in international ag development, is joining Washington law firm Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Matz PC.
A $16 billion program to offer direct payments to producers is not yet ready for signup, but the Department of Agriculture is urging producers to begin several steps of the application process ahead of time.
A California farm has filed a breach of contract suit in U.S. District Court over dealings with a Colorado company the farm says failed to live up to promises in a 2019 hemp seed purchase.
A bipartisan group of senators are asking the Justice Department to “expediently” investigate what they call “concerning circumstances” within a beef sector rocked by processing capacity issues and accusations of profiteering at the highest levels of the supply chain.
Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says plants that have slowed operations or shut their doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic need to develop a plan to bring their facilities back online.
A measure of the state of farm country dropped for the second month in a row, “effectively wiping out the improvement in sentiment that took place following the 2016 election.”
Crop producers will have more time to verify their organic acreage for crop insurance under a loosened regulatory regime rolled out earlier this week by USDA’s Risk Management Agency.
A decision from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals will allow Anheuser Busch to continue running its Bud Light ads pointing to the connection between corn syrup and Molson Coors rival products Coors Light and Miller Lite.