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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, November 02, 2024
Agriculture groups must build a broader base of support for farm programs by strengthening relationships with nutrition advocates, environmental groups and minority farmers, a trio of farm policy veterans told leaders of the National Corn Growers Association on Thursday.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced Thursday that the U.S. and Kenya will begin developing closer ties under a deal that would improve agricultural trade by addressing non-tariff trade barriers.
A pair of senior House and Senate Democrats are offering legislation that would spin off the existing food safety functions of the Food and Drug Administration into a new, separate federal agency.
U.S. supermarket prices jumped 1% in June, led by continued increases in the cost of dairy and bakery products as well as fats and oils, helping fuel another 1.3% surge in the country's overall cost of living.
Major food distributor SYSCO is the latest company to sue the nation's four dominant beef companies, alleging they conspired to limit supplies and fix the prices of beef sold to the company.
A new report from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers shows North American tractor sales dropped in June, but a higher number of combines were purchased.
The forecast for U.S. wheat production got a boost Tuesday with bigger estimates for spring and durum, but global supplies are expected to remain at their lowest level since the 2016-17 marketing year, according to USDA's latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report.
The Agriculture Department will allow double cropping to be insured in hundreds of additional counties this winter in an effort to address shortages of wheat and other commodities as a result of the war in Ukraine.
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