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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, December 20, 2024
The world’s largest commodity trader plans to slash about 8,000 of its global 164,000-person workforce as part of a sweeping effort to cut costs and restructure.
Some House Republicans say they hope the farmer fly-ins this week will spur action on a farm bill, although there’s no sign of a breakthrough between the House and Senate, and time is fast running out.
Volatile commodity markets are allowing international agricultural trading companies to rake in big profits in shadowy financial markets even as food insecurity increases in some of the most vulnerable regions of the globe, says a new analysis from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development that calls for regulations to rein in the excesses.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has selected Laphonza Butler, president of EMILY’S List, to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Joelle Mosso has joined Western Growers as the new associate vice president of science programs.
Challenges facing the ag sector such as climate change, rural flight and shifting economics also bring new opportunities to find solutions that benefit those throughout the entire protein supply chain, Cargill Protein North America President Hans Kabat said at Agri-Pulse’s Ag Outlook Forum in Kansas City on Monday.
Oklahoma Secretary of Agriculture Blayne Arthur has been selected to serve as the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture’s president for 2023-2024. Meanwhile, Mike Schmidt is being detailed to the Senate Ag Committee’s majority staff for Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., as a senior adviser.
Mexico is standing firm on its biotech corn decree, despite the Biden administration’s decision to seek a dispute panel under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.
A sanitation company tasked with cleaning meatpacking plants for Cargill, JBS, Tyson Foods and five other companies has agreed to pay $1.5 million in penalties for employing at least 102 children in hazardous jobs, the Labor Department says.
