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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, January 05, 2025
Agri-Pulse Communications is expanding coverage into California and other West Coast states. Today, 2,500 new subscribers in California started receiving localized Agri-Pulse content in Daybreak and the Daily Harvest, and on Wednesday, they will begin receiving the weekly e-newsletter.
While acknowledging that “it’s tough out there,” Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue assured producers at Commodity Classic on Friday that there are reasons to be optimistic about the farm economy.
If the EU succeeds in placing further expanding restrictions on the use of generic terms such as parmesan, asiago, and feta, a new study suggests dire consequences for the U.S. dairy industry.
Krysta Harden, who served as senior vice president and chief sustainability officer for Corteva Agriscience, the Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, has left the agribusiness firm, Agri-Pulse has learned from an internal company announcement.
Ask a farmer about the most important farm bill provisions for his or her operation and you’ll likely hear the words “crop insurance.” The public-private partnership continued to expand last year, covering more than 334 million acres of farmland in 2018 — a 20 million-acre increase over 2017.
“Adapt or die,” a saying made famous in the early 1970s by then-Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz as he encouraged farmers to look for ways to be more efficient and responsive to market signals, still rings true for many in agriculture today.
The policy session at the close of the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual convention wasn’t exactly an action-packed affair, but several policy shifts approved by members could have ripple effects on farm policy.
