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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, September 06, 2024
Supermarket prices jumped 0.8% in November, pushing the inflation rate for food costs to 6.4% over the past year, the largest increase for a 12-month period since 2008. The White House claims meatpackers bear a lot of the blame.
The House of Representatives cleared a pair of bills critical to the livestock sector Wednesday, but the measures might face different fates in the Senate.
The House of Representatives Wednesday easily approved legislation aimed at stopping ocean carrier companies from refusing to load U.S. agricultural and other goods for exports to Asia and around the globe.
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.
The U.S. dairy sector has evolved into an exporting powerhouse, but the international supply chain crisis is hitting the industry so hard that some are beginning to fear production may deteriorate.
Reducing methane emitted by dairy and beef cattle is crucial for meeting a new global pledge to cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas worldwide by about a third by the end of the decade.
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a retroactive cut to previously established volumetric targets under the nation’s biofuel mandate while leaving room for increases going forward.