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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, December 20, 2024
The European Union and the Mercosur countries have concluded negotiations on a long-anticipated trade deal that would cut tariffs and reduce trade barriers on a slate of agriculture products.
In this opinion piece, Constance Cullman with American Feed Industry Association, Mike Seyfert with the National Grain and Feed Association, Jim Mulhern with the National Milk Producers Federation and Chuck Conner with the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives offer a rebuttal to an opinion piece written by former Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative still isn’t ready to sit down with Chinese trade officials and hash out a new path forward for trade relations, but U.S. farm groups are losing patience with the status quo.
Private-sector funding of agricultural research has been growing quickly in recent years, but that does not diminish the importance of using public money to support advances in farming, a panel of experts said at a Farm Foundation forum at the National Press Club Wednesday.
World agricultural production is increasing and demand growth weakening, causing lower real farm prices for the next decade, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Policymakers and opinion leaders might want to think about farms and ranches as part of the infrastructure on which the modern economy depends, American Farmland Trust (AFT) President and CEO John Piotti told a Farm Foundation forum in Washington last week.
WASHINGTON, May 24, 2017 – The last 10 years have seen “a remarkable rise in cost and the time it takes to approve” new agricultural innovations, at least in part because of added regulatory constraints, Illinois farmer Mark Scholl, chairman of the Farm Foundation board, told a forum on food and agricultural regulations here today.
