Articles by Bill Tomson

The House Rules Committee has teed up a package of spending bills for floor debate this week.

The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled Monday that imports of urea ammonium nitrate fertilizer from Russia and Trinidad and Tobago are not harming U.S. producers of the product, ending the threat of stiff duties on imports and evoking relief from U.S. growers.

President Joe Biden is insisting that he will pursue his climate agenda by executive action, now that Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., appears to have killed any hope of passing a package of clean energy incentives and farm bill conservation funding.

As Congress gears up to write a new farm bill, many commodity groups are calling on lawmakers to raise reference prices to reflect soaring commodity prices and input costs.

Progress was made Wednesday toward an agreement to open up Ukraine’s main Black Sea ports and a deal could be struck soon, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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.

The latest inflation numbers are casting new doubts on Democratic efforts to salvage President Biden’s climate agenda.

Officials representing Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the United Nations met Wednesday in Istanbul in an effort to forge an agreement to allow Ukraine to resume exporting its corn, wheat and sunflower seed oil from the country’s primary ports, three of which are in Odesa.

The Moroccan phosphate giant OCP got a major boost to its effort to reenter the U.S. phosphate market at the U.S. Court of International Trade, but company executives say there may be more challenging legal battles ahead in a campaign that has fertilizer-dependent farmers on their side.