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USDA has released the long-awaited beef market report. Now what?

07/29/20 6:36 AM By Spencer Chase

Last week’s report from the Department of Agriculture offered a laundry list of reasons for why beef markets behaved the way they did after two cataclysmic events hit the sector in as many years. But the 21-page document also contained something else: a legislative and regulatory to-do list for an industry well-known for infighting and disagreement.

Q&A with Chris Novak, CEO of CropLife America

07/29/20 6:30 AM By Steve Davies

CropLife America President and CEO Chris Novak says the nation's crop protection sector is battered, but not broken after enduring a growing season that took place in the midst of a pandemic that stalled many other facets of the economy.

USDA plans for third round of Farmers to Families Food Box program

07/29/20 6:10 AM By Noah Wicks

USDA will execute a third round of its Farmers to Families Food Box Program from Sept. 1 to Oct. 31.

May sales growth of plant-based meats declined just as availability of beef and pork dropped

07/29/20 6:05 AM By Noah Wicks

A report published last Friday from data analytics company IRI found that the growth of plant-based meat alternatives dropped from 79% at the end of April to 57% at the end of May, just as availability of beef and pork also dropped due to meatpacking shutdowns and slowdowns.

Lawsuit goes after USDA 'bioengineered' food disclosure rule

07/28/20 11:31 AM By Steve Davies

A new lawsuit challenges a USDA rule allowing manufacturers to use QR codes read by smartphones to disclose genetically engineered ingredients in food.

House passes FY21 spending package to boost broadband, target Trump regulatory agenda

07/24/20 12:57 PM By Philip Brasher

The Democratic-controlled House approved a package of fiscal 2021 spending bills Friday that would provide about $1 billion for rural broadband expansion while blocking the Trump administration from cutting food stamp rolls and carrying out key regulatory relief measures.

Senate GOP's $1T aid plan authorizes expanded ag assistance

07/23/20 1:17 PM By Philip Brasher

A $1 trillion coronavirus relief package that Senate Republicans are trying to finalize would authorize compensation to livestock and poultry producers and also aid ethanol plants as well as additional direct payments to farmers, a key senator said Thursday.

Draft Democratic platform pledges subsidy reforms, tough trade actions

07/23/20 11:03 AM By Philip Brasher

The Democratic Party’s draft 2020 platform calls for directing more farm subsidies to small and medium-size farms while making the agriculture sector the first in the first world to eliminate net carbon emissions.

USDA recommends beef market changes, but leaves unanswered questions about probe

07/22/20 3:28 PM By Spencer Chase

The Agriculture Department makes a series of recommendations to Congress for addressing price volatility in cattle markets, but the industry was left in the dark about the results of an investigation into alleged price manipulation by beef processors.

New Rabobank report finds steady consumption of table grapes

07/22/20 9:28 AM By Noah Wicks

A new report from Rabobank found that consumption of table grapes has grown or stabilized through the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Open Mic: Mark Eisele, President National Cattlemen's Beef Association

This week’s Open Mic guest is Mark Eisele, President of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. The Wyoming rancher says even though profits are now better for cattlemen than row crop producers, they still need a new farm bill to ensure herd safety and provide opportunities to maintain and grow global markets. Sustainability is important and Eisele discusses how cattlemen are working to produce safe, high quality protein with an even smaller environmental footprint. He also discusses the legal challenges one South Dakota rancher is facing with USDA's Forest Service.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Aug. 16, 2024: Rep. Brad Finstad on rural voters, farm bill; Chandler Goule and Tom Sell

Republican Rep. Brad Finstad represents Minnesota’s first district, the same area Tim Walz represented while in Congress. We asked Rep. Finstad how Walz got reelected so many times, then discussed potential GOP administration policies and the farm bill.

NAWG’s Chandler Goule and Tom Sell from Combest, Sell & Associates also join to discuss GOP and Democratic Party policy differences on trade, labor and climate.

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