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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, March 18, 2024
The National Cotton Council’s outlook for 2024 projects U.S. acreage will drop 3.7% this year as producers deal with prices that could fall below the cost of production.
Senate Ag Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow says she's "trying to really jumpstart some serious negotiations" on the farm safety net with a proposal to increase premium subsidies for buy-up area insurance policies.
The Department of Agriculture’s annual Crop Production report surprised traders with increases to the 2023 corn and soybean yield, pulling prices for both commodities lower in what could be the start of a longer trend.
Lawmakers are looking at boosting subsidies for supplemental, area-based crop insurance policies to induce growers to buy higher levels of coverage, which could potentially reduce the demand from farm groups for ad hoc disaster assistance.
China says it is ready to join the plant biotechnology revolution, opening its fields to the widespread cultivation of genetically modified soybean and corn crops in an effort to bolster domestic production, but it’s unclear if the transformation will benefit U.S. exports.
In line with their goals to help farmers adopt regenerative agriculture, Truterra has made four new data-driven regional and crop-specific programs available.
A new Agriculture Department report projects the nation’s corn producers will still be able to top 15 billion bushels of nationwide production even as stretches of the heartland face dry weather that will lower yields.
USDA has cut its forecast for the value of U.S. ag exports in fiscal year 2023 to $181 billion, a $3.5 billion reduction from the agency’s February prediction of $184.5 billion.
The House Agriculture Committee is considering raising reference prices based on a commodity’s relative input costs, an approach that could benefit some southern crops over commodities such as soybeans and corn.