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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, December 26, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump’s latest tariff announcement, if implemented, could raise farm input costs and dent U.S. agriculture exports, but analysts say he could cut deals to prevent some of the tariffs from materializing.
USDA's efforts to expand domestic animal disease traceability have been unfolding for more than a decade, but the department's latest push is facing a fresh wave of procedural hurdles, producer confusion, and technological debate.
Last week’s decision by a U.S. Appeals Court dealt another blow to the Montana beef checkoff and signaled a significant victory for the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund (R-CALF), an organization that’s made no secret about its desire to challenge other state beef checkoff programs and more broadly, other checkoff programs.
Any day now, you will know the results of a vote to increase the beef checkoff in Oklahoma, but the uncertainty surrounding how to increase checkoff rates nationally may remain.
