Articles Tagged with ''Rabobank''

Promising signs still lay ahead for walnuts—despite a tumultuous year for port congestion, a supply chain crunch and a potentially deepening drought.

The House is set to debate tightening reporting requirements for foreign ownership in the U.S. ag sector. Amendments addressing that issue will be considered as part of a sweeping U.S. competitiveness bill that’s on the House floor starting today.

The Biden administration has selected five state leaders to Rural Development and Farm Service Agency offices and the National Pork Board has tapped Dustin Oedekoven as the organization’s new chief veterinarian.

Global demand for grain and protein is expected to remain strong going into 2022, according to several ag economists. But there are several challenges ahead including inflation, skyrocketing input prices, supply chain disruptions and uncertainty over agricultural trade. .

Consumers in 10 countries, including the United States, France, Germany, the UK, New Zealand and Singapore, don’t see it as a priority to make major changes to agriculture or their diets to address climate change, according to a new survey.

Farmers are being hit from all sides with increased production costs, but two of the expenses responsible for the most volatility and uncertainty are fertilizers and pesticides.

Congress should be careful to avoid overbuilding processing capacity and instituting prescriptive marketing requirements as it studies its response to a pair of turbulent years in the beef industry, witnesses told a House Agriculture subcommittee Wednesday morning.

Rapidly rising almond production coupled with trade wars and COVID-19 impacts have cut prices for farmers nearly in half over the past year and they won’t likely fully recover for at least a couple of seasons, says Roland Fumasi, a senior analyst for Rabobank.