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Even with tariff delays, farm inputs face lasting price effects

02/05/25 6:06 AM By Oliver Ward

President Donald Trump may have put Canadian and Mexican tariffs on ice, but import-dependent industries serving farmers are still feeling some tariff whiplash and face new duties on China.

U.S. agricultural input suppliers preparing for 2025 trade friction

01/08/25 6:05 AM By Oliver Ward

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Companies serving the U.S. agriculture sector are bracing for trade frictions in early 2025 by frontloading imports and diverting shipments to ease the impacts of a possible port strike and tariff hikes.

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Farm Hands on the Potomac: USDA makes senior staff changes, Nigh heads to TFI

01/03/24 6:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

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Kevin Shea has been named senior adviser in the Office of the Deputy Secretary at USDA and Veronica Nigh has joined The Fertilizer Institute as the senior economist.

Government publishes H-2A wage rates, proposes rule change

12/15/21 6:34 AM By Amy Mayer

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The Department of Labor (DOL) is publishing today its 2022 Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWR), which are the minimum an employer must pay H-2A nonimmigrant agricultural workers, and proposing some changes to how those rates are set for certain jobs.

Farm Bureau warns of danger from US duties on fertilizer imports

07/23/21 4:13 PM By Bill Tomson

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The American Farm Bureau Federation is sounding the alarm over potential duties on fertilizer imports from Russia and Trinidad and Tobago, two major suppliers being investigated by the U.S. government over claims of market-distorting subsidies.

Wage rates for H-2A farmworkers up 4.5% in 2021

02/22/21 12:25 PM By Steve Davies

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The Adverse Effect Wage Rate that farmers are required to pay H-2A workers is rising by an average of 4.5% nationally to $14.62 per hour this year, with some western and Plains states seeing significantly higher increases.

H-2A wage rates to jump 6% nationally in 2020

12/18/19 12:34 PM By Steve Davies

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Farmworker wages under the H-2A program will rise 6% nationally in 2020 to an average of $13.99 an hour, with farmers in some states seeing increases of up to 10%, the Labor Department says.

Trump injects new uncertainty over a prolonged China trade war

12/04/19 6:48 AM By Bill Tomson

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President Donald Trump’s latest claim that he might push back a trade pact with China until after the 2020 elections has unleashed a new wave of uncertainty for America’s farmers who had been counting on promises that a resolution to the trade war was imminent.

Shutdown squeezes overseas ag promotion

01/16/19 6:36 AM By Bill Tomson

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It’s been months since any funds have been available for government programs that help American farmers sell their commodities overseas.

Requests for farm guestworker visas surge

02/14/18 5:46 AM By Simon Schuster

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In the first quarter of fiscal year 2018, there were 33,830 positions requested through the H-2A temporary agricultural worker program, the highest ever for the October-through-December period and a near 17 percent increase over the same quarter in the previous year.

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The Senate is expected to release farm bill text soon. We asked Vermont Sen. Peter Welch what he’d like to see included, and if there will be a push to remove state SNAP cost share provisions enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill. Welch also discusses concerns about staffing levels at farmer-facing USDA offices.

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