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Thursday, April 17, 2025
It's too early to tell how much farmland will be flooded or too wet to plant this year, but new risk management options are available to help agribusinesses and custom harvesters who might suffer along with their farmer customers.
In a counter notification filed with the WTO, the United States joined with Australia, Canada, Paraguay, Thailand, and Ukraine to once again document how much India’s wheat and rice subsidies exceed allowable limits.
Crop insurance is commonly recognized as the cornerstone of the farm safety net, but Risk Management Agency Administrator Marcia Bunger believes more training, outreach and education is needed.
The largest food and beverage company in North America, PepsiCo, aims to deliver approximately three million metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions and removals by 2030 as a result of new agreements with farm organizations.
With all business units experiencing double-digit growth, Syngenta Group sales for 2022 were $33.4 billion, up $5.2 billion or 19% from the previous year, the company reported.
Hundreds of interest groups, trade associations, environmentalists and even a few farmers are submitting their ideas for a new farm bill to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees. Not to be outdone, representatives of key California departments recently submitted their own 2023 farm bill recommendations in a letter to chairpersons and ranking members.
Writing a new farm bill in 2023 will require investing countless hours in educating over 200 new members of Congress and also may mean navigating fights over spending, according to lawmakers and trade association leaders advocating on behalf of the crop insurance industry.
