Items Tagged with 'Jamieson Greer'

 The Senate’s draft farm bill doesn’t include language for year-round E15 or the elimination of California’s Proposition 12, but Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman is still highly optimistic both measures will make it through Congress this year. The two biggest U.S. ethanol trade groups are defending the Trump administration against legal challenges to EPA biofuel-blending rules from environmentalists, biogas groups and oil refiners.

The costs states face in co-funding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are comparable to the roughly $15 billion spent on transportation in fiscal 2025, the National Association of State Budget Officers tells Senate and House Agriculture committee leaders. USDA Undersecretary for Food Safety Mindy Brashears says 7,000 inspectors with the Food Safety Inspection Service are “leading the animal health charge” in the fight against New World screwworm, and the parasitic pest does not pose a threat to the food supply.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins used her time with the International Fresh Produce Association to highlight the administration’s deregulation push, as well as efforts to reshape federal nutrition policy, expand export markets, lower labor costs and support specialty crop producers.

The U.S. Trade Representative is proposing tariffs of 10% to 12.5% on a wide range of imports from 60 economies, on the grounds that they’ve failed to block imports of goods produced using forced labor. 

The European Council and Parliament have hashed out an agreement on the path forward for a U.S.-European Union trade pact agreed to last year. Rep. Thomas Massie’s primary loss in Kentucky has Republicans, Democrats and independents recalibrating their political assumptions as the midterm campaign season moves into high gear. 

Details of what President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to around agricultural market access continue to trickle out. 

Agriculture markets are analyzing the outcome of President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, while U.S. lawmakers are taking in the latest sign of a tumultuous political season ahead. 

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says Beijing will commit to purchasing at least $10 billion in U.S. agricultural products annually following President Donald Trump’s trip to Beijing.