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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, January 01, 2025
The U.S. hog and pig inventory stood at 63.8 million head as of Dec. 1, USDA said today in a report. ThatPs the highest number since quarterly estimates began in 1988.
A coalition of agricultural organizations led by the American Soybean Association is urging Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman to work toward positive outcomes for agriculture in the World Trade Organization ministerial negotiations going on thi
The eyes of the world will be on Paris again this week, but for other reasons beyond terrorism. President Obama and 150 or so other world leaders are gathering in the French capital to try to forge a binding agreement to slow global warming.
USDA today released a final rule today establishing an inspection service for imported and domestically-raised catfish, implementing provisions required by the 2014 farm bill.
A bipartisan group of nine U.S. senators is urging the conference committee handling the surface transportation bill to make sure the final bill allows bulk milk trucks to carry their cargo without being forced to offload portions of their load at state borders. The senators said that
That�s the word from Dick Rogers, the principal scientist with the Bayer Bee Care Center in North Carolina, who�s been studying honey bees for decades. In a blog post, Rogers says he conducts hive evaluations during late summer and early fall
EPA has issued a cancellation order for registered products containing sulfoxaflor, in response to a Sept. 10 decision by the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that found the agency violated federal law when it approved the pesticide�s registration without additiona
The Kansas City Fed is painting a dreary picture of the farm economy in the Tenth Federal Reserve District, an area covering Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyoming, the northern half of New Mexico and the western third of Missouri.