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The increase in payment limits for the 2019 version of the Market Facilitation Program allowed large farming operations to collect an additional $519 million over the 2018 program, the Government Accountability Office says.

Marshall Matz recaps last week’s African Green Revolution Forum and how Africa can help build a resilient and sustainable food system.

The Trump administrations carries out a major piece of its regulatory reform agenda this week, while some lawmakers hold out hope for breaking an impasse over a coronavirus relief package.

The hemp sector is hopeful a recent USDA request for comment on multiple pending hemp regulations means the department will suspend the requirements before they become effective at the end of next month.

USDA will release the rules for the next round of coronavirus relief payments to farmers next week, just ahead of the deadline for applying for the first round, Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says.

China has been ramping up its corn and soybean purchases in recent weeks, but USDA's latest trade data show Chinese imports through July this year are still below 2018 levels and are far from the pace needed to meet goals set in the “phase one” trade pact.

Many farmers will see their incomes rise this year amid the historically massive outpouring of government aid producers have received as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, USDA says.

The Trump administration is acting to remove another regulatory barrier to agricultural biotechnology by proposing to streamline EPA's oversight of pest-resistant plants. But there's little sign of progress on reforms to FDA’s regulation of gene-edited animals.

Spiro Stefanou has been selected to serve as the new administrator of USDA’s Economic Research Service and Paul Schlegel announced his retirement from the American Farm Bureau Federation.