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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Cotton industry leaders reported to federal government officials this week that export contracts worth nearly $1 billion, covering sales of more than 4 million bales, are either in default or are at risk of default with little sign of resolution.
In its Grain Stocks summary today, USDA reported corn, soybean and wheat stocks lower than a year ago. Corn stocks are down 12 percent from September 2011, while soybean stocks declined 21 percent and all wheat stocks declined 2 percent.
A new coalition called Fuels America, made up of advanced fuel stakeholders and some farm groups, announced their campaign to defend the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney outlined reasons why farmers and ranchers should support their respective goals for the next presidential term in American Farm Bureau Federation’s (AFBF) questionnaire.
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and an Iowa pork producer filed a lawsuit today in federal district court, charging the National Pork Board with striking “an unlawful backroom deal†with the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) for the purchase of the “Pork: The Other White Meat†s
After several days of partisan bickering over which party is most to blame for the failure to tackle some of the nation’s biggest challenges, lawmakers managed to pass a continuing resolution but failed to pass a new farm bill
Republican Mitt Romney holds a 14 percentage-point lead over President Barack Obama among rural voters in nine swing states, according to the National Rural Assembly Poll released today.
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