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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
The Agriculture Department's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is awarding over $200 million to over 60 U.S. agricultural organizations to "help expand commercial export markets for U.S. goods," the agency said.
The port congestion and trucking shortage that have made it difficult – and in some cases just not possible to ship U.S. ag commodities overseas will likely continue throughout 2022, according to a new analysis from RaboResearch, a division of Rabobank.
American cattle and hog producers are sending meat overseas at a record rate in 2021 after strong third-quarter returns charted by the U.S. Meat Export Federation.
We still don’t have details of the provisions that Democrats have agreed on as part of their Build Back Better spending plan. But Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow says there is still significant for funding child nutrition and conservation provisions.
A measure of the state of mind in farm country is at its lowest point since July 2020 as producers report less optimism about their current and future circumstances and signal concerns about the impact of inflation on their operations.
The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture set policy for the coming year at a recent gathering, where the organization put a priority on the flow of ag goods in the U.S. and overseas.
The high-stakes battle to buy Kansas City Southern railroad is heating up again with Canadian Pacific pitching another acquisition bid after the Surface Transportation Board denied Canadian National Railway’s proposal.
American ag exporters have been finding it increasingly difficult to get their commodities into containers and onto ships as Chinese companies and international shippers monopolize ocean transportation, but lawmakers are hoping to alleviate the situation with new legislation.