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WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2017 - The Trump administration is considering a 20 percent tax on Mexican imports to finance a border wall and that has U.S. farm groups worrying about retaliation and possibly losing a major foreign market for rice, wheat, dairy, pork and many other ag commodities.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2017 - Many people familiar with Sonny Perdue’s time as Georgia governor are thrilled with his nomination as Agriculture Secretary, saying President Donald Trump selected a good listener, efficient delegator, and thorough thinker.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2017 - President Donald Trump’s team has been plotting to use his first budget plan to make a case that he’s serious about cutting spending and weeding out programs considered unnecessary. Word leaked just ahead of the president’s inauguration that advisers were developing proposals based on...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2017 - Defenders of farm and nutrition programs are going to like the latest budget projections from the Congressional Budget Office. They show the costs of crop insurance and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program dropping sharply over the coming years.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2017 - It’s official. With a stroke of the pen, President Donald Trump on Monday pulled the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade pact that most U.S. farm groups counted on to help boost sales for producers who are struggling with...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2017 - A study by three former USDA agricultural economists, the first of a series by a conservative think tank, concludes that the impact of farm subsidies and related programs on food prices and consumption are “surely tiny.”
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2017 - One of the major manufacturers of pyrethroids says the Environmental Protection Agency did not use “real world” data to assess the chemicals, which led it to overstate...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2017 - To hear Todd Allen tell it, Cargill is only now talking publicly about feedlot improvements that have been in the works for years.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2017 – Whether it’s whistling in the dark or confidence based on past achievements and bipartisan Senate support, one biofuels policy insider expects biodiesel and other advanced biofuels to continue their rapid growth.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2017 - President Donald Trump today officially pulled the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade pact that the Obama administration spent years orchestrating in order to give the U.S. a new leadership role among Pacific Rim countries.
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