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The U.S Meat Export Federation says booming United States beef and pork exports in 2021 increased the value of corn and soybeans.

The Senate Agriculture Committee is expected this week to approve proposals aimed at weakening the market power of meatpackers but have long divided producers.

The World Trade Organization squeaked out a win in the final hours of its summit this week in Geneva, agreeing to prohibit all of its 164 nations from refusing to provide food commodities to the World Food Program for its humanitarian efforts.

A House Agriculture Committee Republican wants the commodity programs in the next farm bill to reflect the current economic situation for producers.

“Not that I’m aware of.” House Agriculture Chairman David Scott says that answer from Tim Schellpeper, the CEO of meatpacking giant JBS USA, at a hearing in April is enough to justify setting up a special investigator’s office at USDA to look into meat industry practices.

The U.S. International Trade Commission is considering finalizing the process of slapping duties on key foreign sources of urea ammonium nitrate fertilizer, but three GOP lawmakers are urging the agency to reverse course out of consideration for U.S. farmers, who are dealing with widespread inflation and supply chain disruptions.

The Biden administration on Thursday pledged to help repair Ukraine’s agriculture sector from the damages of the Russian invasion even as the war rages on and farmers struggle to bring in crops.

House Democrats, struggling to maintain their tenuous control over the House amid soaring food and fuel prices, win passage of a package of bills aimed at promoting competition in the meat sector, reducing fertilizer usage and expanding the use of biofuels.