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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Roughly 25,000 dock workers went on strike early Tuesday morning leaving ports stretching from Maine to Texas unable to move containers of poultry, soybeans, animal feed, cotton, meats, bananas and other agricultural products onto and off of ships.
Grasshoppers and Mormon crickets are posing a significant threat to Western U.S. agriculture, causing considerable damage to rangelands and forage. The American Farm Bureau Federation estimates that these pests result in $318 million in crop losses annually.
