Articles by Bill Tomson

Farm groups are concerned the Senate version of the House-passed Ocean Shipping Reform Act won't have the same strong provisions for getting U.S. farm goods onto container ships amid the supply chain crisis.

The International Dairy Foods Association is joining with the Port of Los Angeles and the shipping logistics company CMA CGM to form the Dairy Exports Working Group as supply chain bottlenecks at U.S. ports continue to hamper shipments of agricultural commodities to foreign buyers.

The Supreme Court could issue a new decision outlining the scope of Clean Water Act jurisdiction by this summer, even as the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers work on a new definition of “waters of the U.S.”

The Biden administration is temporarily imposing a vaccine mandate on noncitizens entering the country, which could pose a problem for farmers. The mandate will apply to farmworkers holding H-2A visas — and also to truck drivers crossing the border.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack confirms that USDA is expecting to spend about $1 billion from the Commodity Credit Corp. for developing climate-smart agricultural commodities.

Congestion is snarling West Coast ports and capacity for U.S. ag exports is dropping as ocean carriers agree to send back empty containers to China, but upper Midwest farmers, food manufacturers and forestry product producers are about to get access to a new path to buyers around the world.

It's dry in Argentina, Paraguay and the southern states of Brazil, and market watchers are going to be paying close attention in the weeks and months to come as the South American soybean crops are harvested.

The nation’s farmer cooperatives are welcoming the Supreme Court’s decision blocking the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate on private employers.

President Biden’s $1.7 billion Build Back Better bill is going nowhere on Capitol Hill, but Democrats are looking at pulling out the climate-smart ag provisions and clean energy incentives and moving them as a separate package

Fertilizer prices have risen quickly and the National Corn Growers Association is warning that new tariffs on imports could make the situation even worse for farmers.