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USDA targets organic fraud in new proposal

08/05/20 6:30 AM By Steve Davies

USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service is proposing a rule to strengthen oversight and enforcement of the organic supply chain, particularly imports.

Dairy farms getting bigger as economies of scale drive consolidation

08/05/20 6:25 AM By Noah Wicks

The size of the average dairy farm is growing as consolidation drives greater concentration of production across many different regions with prominent dairy production.

Researchers on brink of releasing treatment for peanut allergy

08/05/20 6:20 AM By Noah Wicks

A group of scientists at the Food Processing and Sensory Quality Research Laboratory in New Orleans has created an oral immunotherapy drug to desensitize patients to allergic reactions from peanuts.

California representatives ask USDA to help walnut industry

08/05/20 6:15 AM By Noah Wicks

Nine California representatives are urging USDA to “utilize all purchasing authorities” to help the walnut industry.

Washington Week Ahead: Coronavirus relief talks slip into August

08/02/20 10:30 AM By Ben Nuelle

The Trump administration and House Democrats have yet to reach a coronavirus relief deal, and billions in agriculture funding and food assistance increases hang in the balance as the high-level talks move slowly.

DOJ says DFA can't use status as co-op to shield itself from antitrust claims

07/29/20 3:57 PM By Steve Davies

Dairy Farmers of America cannot use a law designed to equalize farmers’ bargaining power with corporations handling agricultural products to protect itself from antitrust claims, the Justice Department said in a court filing.

House appropriations committee directs $69.5M to combat citrus greening

07/29/20 10:49 AM By Noah Wicks

The House Appropriations Committee has approved $69.5 million to be put toward researching and preventing the spread of Huanglongbing, or citrus greening disease, in the United States.

AMS places sanctions on three Western US businesses

07/29/20 9:15 AM By Noah Wicks

The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced Monday that it is placing sanctions on three produce businesses for “failing to meet their contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the PACA (Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act).”

Farm relief, SNAP benefits in play as aid talks heat up

07/29/20 6:54 AM By Philip Brasher and Ben Nuelle

A key senator involved in developing the Republican coronavirus relief package for farmers defended the broad authority it gives to USDA to spend $20 billion in farm aid, but he said the Trump administration likely will need to provide assurances about how the money will be spent.

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.

Agri-Pulse Open Mic: KipEideberg, Association of Equipment Manufacturers

This week’s Open Mic guest is Kip Eideberg, Senior Vice-President Government and Industry Relations for the Association of Equipment Manufacturers. Like the industries they serve, equipment manufacturers are familiar with the cyclical turns in farming, forestry, construction and mining. Eideberg says higher interest rates, a lack of trade agreements and sluggish economies around the globe and in the U.S. are proving challenging for the customers to make capital purchases. Eideberg is hopeful Congress will bring a new farm bill in the Lame Duck session or at least early next year. He says tax policy will also be critical next year as both industry and customers need amended policy on deductions for research as well as depreciation.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Nov. 1, 2024: WFP Laureate Cary Fowler at Borlaug Dialogue

2024 World Food Prize laureates Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin were honored for their life work protecting crop biodiversity at the Borlaug International Dialogue. We asked Fowler about the creation of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Then, Jim Snee, CEO of Hormel, and his wife Tammy discuss Hormel’s Hometown Food Security Project, and Manuel Otero, IICA director general, spoke on farmers’ challenges to adopt new technology.

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