Items Tagged with 'transportation'

Multiple breakdowns in how goods are transported across the country and around the globe are worsening crises in a food and agriculture sector that is already bleeding profits and customers, according to witnesses at a House hearing Wednesday.

High demand for farm equipment and issues in the supply chain mean that orders for new machinery from a number of companies are taking months to fill and prices for used equipment have gone up.

In this opinion piece, Becky Rasdall with the International Dairy Foods Association discusses the freight issues currently plaguing U.S. dairy and many other commodities and exporting industries.

New faces will head key departments as the Biden administration takes office Jan. 20, and their actions on regulations affecting agriculture and rural America may differ sharply from the last four years.

More than 60 agricultural groups are asking states to increase weight limits for trucks in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

All of the leading Democratic presidential candidates are calling for major increases in spending for roads, bridges, rural broadband and other infrastructure needs, but the plans differ sharply in scope as well as in how the candidates plan to pay for them. 

Leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee are rushing to finalize agreement on a bipartisan farm bill with an eye toward getting it out of the chamber this month to set the stage for negotiations with their House counterparts.