Items Tagged with 'Wheat'

A top USDA official says the Trump administration is still evaluating the need for trade assistance payments to farmers. “If we do something, when we do something, we want it to be reflective of what’s actually happening in the marketplace,” Richard Fordyce, USDA’s undersecretary for farm production and conservation, says in an interview for this week’s Agri-Pulse Newsmakers. 

China bought fewer U.S. soybeans than initially expected, according to revised Agriculture Department data on recent Chinese soybean purchases.

A Commerce Ministry spokesperson refused to confirm that Chinese purchase commitments of U.S. soybeans were part of a trade deal agreed to late last month.

The Trump administration defended its plan to partially fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for November after receiving swift criticism from Democrats and anti-hunger groups.

As populations begin to fall in key export markets, U.S. soybean and sorghum producers are particularly exposed to shrinking demand and export losses, a new analysis from Terrain finds.

In this opinion piece, Jeff Harrison, senior counsel for Combest, Sell & Associates, argues that economic assistance for farmers is urgently needed to avoid harming the broader economy and slowing down next year's congressional agenda. 

In this joint opinion piece, Reps. Clay Higgins and Michael Cloud, in collaboration with Reps. Barry Moore, and Lauren Boebert, argue that Congress needs to provide immediate economic assistance to farmers. 

In this opinion piece, Britt Groosman, vice president of agriculture, water, and food for the Environmental Defense Fund, says we owe it to farmers, ranchers, and families to get food production ready for a world that’s getting hotter.