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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Worker layoffs in Iowa agribusiness have extended to the meat processing industry with Smithfield Foods' closure of its ham boning facility at Altoona, and intensified in farm equipment manufacturing, as John Deere cut another 300 jobs.
New climate standards that would require railroads to switch to zero-emission locomotives could reduce market competitiveness and increase food costs, significantly affecting the Midwest.
This presidential debate will hardly be remembered for the policy. The talk around the country today is almost certainly going to be about the relative performance of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, not the positions on issues.
The Agriculture Department will compensate dairy farmers for 90% of the value of milk production lost due to the H5N1 virus through use of its Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-raised Fish Program, or ELAP.
The House Agriculture Committee is holding a closed-door meeting today on child labor with legal experts and representatives of the meat processing industry.
The softening in grain markets that is pressuring row crop farmers has brought some welcome relief to dairy producers, but the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza on dairy farms continues to weigh on the sector.
The renewable diesel boom driven by a slate of federal and state policies has brought with it a surge in demand for imports of animal fats and vegetable oils to be used as feedstocks that could continue growing in 2025 as tax credits shift to incentivize in-country production of the fuel.
World agricultural production will need to increase 47% to 61% by 2050 from a 2011 baseline, depending on the rate of global population growth, USDA economists say.
The Agriculture Department on Tuesday proposed new definitions for practices that can be deemed "unfair" under the Packers and Stockyards Act, allowing the livestock antitrust law to prohibit conduct that “harms market participants” and “harms the market."
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