Items Tagged with 'AFBF'

The American Farm Bureau Federation reported Fourth of July cookouts will cost 17% more than last year.

The Supreme Court will review the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 12, an animal housing law that requires pork sold in the state come from sows afforded a minimum amount of space.

Citing the crisis in Ukraine, the American Farm Bureau Federation and several food and feed processing groups appealed to the Biden administration to let farmers plant crops on prime farmland that’s idled under the Conservation Reserve Program.

With public comment now closed, around 100 advocates for farmworkers and their employers have filed responses to the Department of Labor’s proposed changes to calculating wage rates for the farmworker nonimmigrant visa program.

The leader of the American Farm Bureau Federation used his opening address to the group’s annual gathering to discuss the organization’s efforts to shape climate policy on Capitol Hill and through the regulatory process.

Ag groups are pushing back against rumors that the Build Back Better bill being crafted by Democrats on Capitol Hill would impose an emissions tax on livestock that would cost more than some of the animals are worth.

The American Farm Bureau Federation has selected a veteran economist with the Agriculture Department and the dairy industry to lead the organization's economic analysis unit.

Fertilizer imports from Russia and Trinidad and Tobago are likely harming U.S. industries, according to a new finding released Friday by the International Trade Commission.

The Supreme Court’s rejection of a petition seeking review of California’s Proposition 12, which sets animal housing standards for meat sold in the state, ends an effort by the North American Meat Institute to set aside the requirements. But the meat industry has another shot at legal redemption in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Some ag exporters have complained that they can’t get their products into containers or that the filled containers are sitting at port, incurring fees and risking spoilage, because shippers are sending empty containers back to Asia so they can be filled with imports and sent back to the U.S. as fast as possible.