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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
In 2016, the American electorate wasn't just fed information designed to confuse them about their voting choices. They also received a steady diet of anti-"GMO" articles supplied by Russian media.
The USDA is expecting strong support from farmers, elevators and exporters in an urgent mission to reduce the amount of unwanted material like weed seeds in the U.S. soybean supply.
Brazil, the world juggernaut of agricultural production over the past 20 years, has the land, weather, labor and potential to increase soybean, corn and meat production even more dramatically over the next two decades, according to Brazilian and U.S. analysts.
Archer Daniels Midland Co. and Cargill have agreed to form a joint venture by which they would own and operate the National Vegetable Oil Co. in Egypt.
President Trump takes another stab this week at settling a biofuel policy dispute that has embroiled a key USDA nominee, and his administration will step up its defense of proposals to clamp down on federal nutrition assistance.
Amid depressed farm income, American farmers will produce record amounts of meat, poultry and milk this year while slightly increasing plantings of major field crops, according to the Agriculture Department.
The Commerce Department today took the final step to authorizing retaliatory action against imports of biodiesel from Argentina and Indonesia, setting the final rates importers must pay to bring the biofuel into the U.S.
U.S. sugar farmers want to keep restricting the inflow of foreign supplies just as much as sweetener users – think candy and food companies – want to increase imports and push down prices. As a result, friction between the two sides is heating up as Congress prepares to write the next five-year farm bill.
China made it clear this month it wants to block imports of U.S. sorghum, but the country's new dumping investigation may be just adding fuel to demand from feed mills there for the U.S. grain.
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