Agri-Pulse staff

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U.S. farm exports will reach a record $149.5 billion in the year ending Sept. 30, up $6.9 billion from a February forecast, helped by the highest ever soybean purchases by China and surging sales of beef and dairy, according to USDA.

The outlook for the fertilizer industry will continue bearish through the second quarter of 2014, according to a report by the Rabobank Food and Agribusiness Research and Advisory group, which looks at supply, demand and pricing for urea, phosphate, and potash in key international markets.

Some 117 biodiesel companies and affiliated businesses are urging President Obama to support continued growth for their industry under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), according to the National Biodiesel Board.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is awarding $6 million to universities and cooperative state extension services to develop online decision tools and other materials and train experts to educate producers about several key farm bill pr

The biofuels industry is dismissing as “deeply flawed” a University of Nebraska-Lincoln study that claims using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline.

More than 1,000 stakeholders are gathering in Austin, Texas, this week for the National Farm to Cafeteria Conference, an event that organizers say will build on a growing effort to source local food for cafeterias in schools, hospitals and other institutions.

U.S. negotiators appear to be running into a stone wall in their bid to open up Europe to genetically modified crops (GMOs) in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released over the weekend says that the “estimates of global land use change (LUC) are highly uncertain, unobservable, unverifiable and dependent on assumed policy, economic contexts and inputs.”