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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, December 20, 2024
The European Commission is seeking a one-year delay in the implementation of an anti-deforestation law with implications for U.S. beef and soy producers as it looks for answers to a flurry of questions from the U.S. and its other trade partners about how such a policy would work.
Lawmakers, beef groups and state agriculture officials are urging the Agriculture Department to reverse its recent decision to lift a long-standing ban on beef imports from Paraguay, citing concerns about the accuracy of the agency’s analysis of foot and mouth disease risks posed by the country.
Leaders of the House and Senate Ag committees have reached agreement on a one-year farm bill extension, but its fate hinges on whether Congress can agree on a stopgap spending bill this year.
A Department of Agriculture proposal to outline conditions for beef to enter the U.S. market from Paraguay is being met with stiff opposition from groups representing American producers.
A handful of farm groups have been rejected in their effort to exempt truckers hauling live animals from federal mandates limiting the hours a driver can be on the job.
U.S. beef exports to Japan have been so strong that they set off a “safeguard trigger” designed to protect domestic producers by increasing the country’s tariff level.
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association hopes to address some of the industry’s longest-running issues in 2020, goals that will likely need the cooperation of an administration that is up for reelection in November.
China will be huge for U.S. beef. That’s the conclusion of U.S. negotiators and the U.S. cattle industry, but it’s going to take a lot of work to get there and the Chinese will have to come through on major promises over the next two months that were made in the “phase one” deal that was signed last week in the White House.
U.S. beef producers are excited about the possible sales opportunities that could result in China’s increased desire for beef, but the same could be said for every country that sends beef to the People’s Republic.
U.S. complaints that Europe wasn’t living up to a promise to import American beef were ignored for years, but that’s changed in the months since the Trump administration began considering retaliatory duties on European imports. Now the two sides are talking and it looks like a deal could be in the works.
