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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, July 18, 2024
AGCO's Eric Hansotia
discusses everything from access to affordable Semiconductor chips to his thoughts on farm equipment’s role in carbon sequestration in this wide-ranging interview.
The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, heads to Capitol Hill this week to face lawmakers who are sharply divided over the agency’s plan to require corporations to track and disclose greenhouse gas emissions in their supply chains.
A contract dispute between the nation's largest railroads and 115,000 of their workers is nearing escalation to a strike that could idle more than 7,000 trains, potentially halting the movement of grain during the harvest season.
In a potential new milestone in agricultural biotechnology, a gene-edited tomato that’s high in antioxidants believed to fight cancer and heart disease, has cleared a key hurdle.
The leaders of some of the largest ag, energy, rural and food nonprofit organizations have faced unprecedented challenges over the last few years, and some have been compensated handsomely for their troubles.
President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the administration’s chief agricultural negotiator is expected to get committee approval this week as lawmakers start wrapping up their pre-election to-do list.
Freezing the wage rate paid to farmworkers in the U.S. under the H-2A program “could encourage a faster expansion” of the program and may reduce the wages of the U.S. domestic workers who account for 90% of average employment on U.S. crop farms, the Economic Research Service said in a report released Tuesday.
The four largest U.S. railroads are optimistic about their plans to recruit more workers headed into the fall harvest, but Surface Transportation Board Chairman Martin Oberman has expressed concern about how ready the railroads are.
The National FFA Organization’s CEO says its diversity and inclusion efforts are key facets of a new strategic plan and value statements currently guiding the group –moves that are critical not only for the health of the organization, but for American agriculture in search of its future workforce.