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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
President Joe Biden is once again taking aim at the nation’s largest meat and poultry processors, vowing to boost competition for America’s farmers and ranchers and reduce prices for consumers.
A lawsuit alleging Tyson Foods’ negligence and disregard for proper safety measures led to the deaths from COVID-19 of four employees of its Waterloo, Iowa, plant can move forward in state court, a federal appeals court ruled.
Agri-Pulse readers kept a keen eye on a whole host of developments throughout the year, but none more so than the fresh faces of a new administration and Capitol Hill’s attempts to pass legislation to inject new funds into farm country.
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.
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The Biden administration will lift restrictions on travel from South Africa Dec. 31, which is good news for farmers and ranchers who are expected to employ about 7,000 workers from that country this growing season.
A potential shortage of truck drivers has both agriculture industry stakeholders and lawmakers concerned as supply chain bottlenecks have made it difficult for retailers, producers and consumers to obtain the inputs they need or transport their own products to the market.
The Department of Labor (DOL) is publishing today its 2022 Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWR), which are the minimum an employer must pay H-2A nonimmigrant agricultural workers, and proposing some changes to how those rates are set for certain jobs.
The biofuel tax incentives in President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill could insure a growing market for soybean oil and other farm commodities, but the trucking industry worries the subsidies will kick off a war with the airlines over feedstocks.