Oliver Ward

Manufacturers of specialized food nutrition products are continuing operations despite payment delays and uncertainty around USAID's future, but warn of far-reaching economic repercussions if food aid is permanently axed.

House GOP leaders are struggling to nail down the votes they need for their budget blueprint. A key message for more moderate members is that the final spending cuts won’t be as great as the budget resolution now calls for. 

Selling lawmakers on Farm-to-School * Fact sheet on pesticide notifications * Mexico, Canada tariffs still on * Probationary firings questioned

As populations begin to fall in key export markets, U.S. soybean and sorghum producers are particularly exposed to shrinking demand and export losses, a new analysis from Terrain finds.

Now it’s your move, House Republicans. Senate Republicans on Friday pushed through their skinny budget resolution. House Republicans will try this week to pass a much more sweeping plan that would require $1.5 trillion in spending cuts.

Farmer appointed to CARB * CDFA’s bag of dairy dollars * House GOP faces budget challenge

House GOP leaders this week will try to hold their narrow majority together on a sweeping budget blueprint that would require at least $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, which face resistance from some moderate Republicans as well as some in the Senate GOP.

U.S. negotiators should push for a catch-up clause in the forthcoming U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement review to make up for what they see as Ottawa’s mismanagement of tariff-rate quotas, according to a dairy industry representative.

The House is on track to debate the GOP’s massive budget blueprint next week. The House Rules Committee is scheduled Monday to prepare the budget resolution for floor action, although it’s not yet clear that Republicans have nailed down the votes.

CDFA hit by cyberattack * Another organic ag bill * Beekeeping losses * CEO’s warning on fertilizer tariffs