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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Seed giant Corteva is packing up and ceasing all operations in Russia as the country continues its military invasion of Ukraine, according to a press release from the company.
The USDA on Thursday reported yet another Chinese purchase of more than a million metric tons of U.S. corn, pushing cumulative U.S. corn sales to China so far in the current 2021-22 marketing year to roughly 14.7 million metric tons.
Democrats struggling to deal with voter concerns about inflation are using a cattle markets reform bill to make the case that corporate CEOs are to blame for rising prices.
The Biden administration has all but ruled out tariff-slashing market access deals when it comes to its proposed Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, but the U.S. ag sector still hopes the agreement will include a trade pillar that boosts exports to rapidly growing markets that are home to a patchwork of regulatory restrictions and non-tariff trade barriers.
Agricultural shippers should not have to pay the price for increasingly unreliable railway service that is pushing American farmers and ranchers to the breaking point, Deputy Agriculture Secretary Jewel Bronaugh said Tuesday at an emergency hearing held by the Surface Transportation Board.
Ahead of a key Senate hearing this week, economists at Texas A&M University have finished their analysis of a revised bill that would mandate levels of cash trading in the cattle markets.
Chinese buyers have contracted this week to buy 1.347 million metric tons of U.S. corn, the latest large daily purchase in an effort to lock down supplies after the Russian invasion of Ukraine cut off exports from the country.
