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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
USDA today released details of a final rule on school meals that it says increases local flexibility in implementing nutrition standards for milk, whole grains, and sodium.
The Senate Agriculture Committee has advanced three USDA nominations toward final floor votes, but at least one appears unlikely to win confirmation before this Congress adjourns.
President Donald Trump and the White House have been making some big promises about China coming back into the market to purchase U.S. farm commodities, but the details over which products, how much, and when this will happen remain murky beyond descriptive terms like “massive amounts” and “immediately.”
President Donald Trump, while talking to reporters aboard Air Force One this weekend, dropped a trade bomb few were expecting: He said he planned to officially notify Mexico and Canada that he will pull the U.S. out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, giving Congress six months to ratify his new trade pact or suffer the consequences.
The tough economic times agriculture currently faces could last for almost another decade, an ag economist told the American Seed Trade Association Tuesday in Chicago.
The new farm bill largely preserves the commodity and conservation programs but it includes some significant improvements for dairy producers and also would raise price floors for sugar and other commodities.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said Monday he would recommend President Donald Trump sign the new farm bill that congressional negotiators agreed on even though it wouldn’t tighten work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said Monday he expects China to drop its retaliatory tariffs on U.S. ag commodities very soon in order to boost imports, as promised.
Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue has tapped Matt Lohr to lead the Natural Resources Conservation Service, putting the Virginia farmer in charge of the Department of Agriculture’s conservation efforts.
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