Articles by Philip Brasher

U.S. farmers facing soaring prices for fertilizer and other inputs plan to reduce corn plantings by 3.9 million acres this year and seed a record 91 million acres of soybeans, according to USDA’s annual planting intentions survey.

USDA today will release its annual survey of farmers’ planting intentions, which will be the department’s first good reading on how much farmers will shift their crop mix as a result of the Ukraine war and soaring costs for fertilizer and other inputs.

A prominent African leader says the food crisis in Africa this year because of the war in Ukraine “might be even worse” than the price spikes in 2008

A bill that would ban new or expanded commercial animal feeding operations has made the California Chamber of Commerce’s list of job-killing proposals in this year’s state legislative session.

Democratic Party leaders are considering downgrading Iowa’s outsized role in the presidential nominating process, which has long forced candidates to pay far more attention to farm and biofuel policy than they otherwise would.

President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2023 includes a $2.6 billion, or 9%, increase for USDA with many of the same themes of the first budget he proposed a year ago.

President Joe Biden’s proposed budget for fiscal 2023 that would boost Agriculture Department spending by 9%, including significant increases for agricultural research and conservation technical assistance and a new round of funding for rural broadband expansion.

Agri-Pulse Daybreak: Budget process kicking off * Fortenberry resigning * USDA revises supermarket prices for 2022 upward * Ukraine gets new ag minister

President Joe Biden will release his fiscal 2023 budget on Monday, just six months before the new budget year begins, while Senate leaders search for a way to move a bill aimed at relieving port bottlenecks.

Senate leaders are testing the waters to see if they can bring up the Ocean Shipping Reform Act and pass the bill relatively quickly.