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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, November 19, 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.
East Coast dockworkers agreed to end their two-day strike after coming to a “tentative agreement on wages” with the United States Maritime Alliance, the International Longshoremen’s Association and USMX said in a joint statement Thursday.
Syngenta and ADM reported lower income in the first quarter than in the first three months of 2023, reflecting challenging conditions in the ag sector.
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says he’s against a proposal to be more restrictive with future rewrites of the Thrifty Food Plan, the calculation used to determine Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Higher margins in its ag services and oilseeds business helped push ADM to an operating profit of about $6.5 billion for its fiscal year 2022, an increase of 41% over 2021.
Companies planning thousands of miles of pipelines to transport liquid carbon dioxide throughout the Midwest are making slow but steady progress in obtaining voluntary easements, but the projects still face fierce opposition from many property owners, including farmers.
The Department of Agriculture has tapped Ellen Luger as the next minister counselor of agriculture in Rome for the Foreign Agricultural Service and Erica Chabot is the new majority staff director for the Senate Agriculture Committee,
President Joe Biden has announced his intent to appoint Joy Kono as the Farm Service Agency state director for Hawaii and Maria Gallegos Herrera as the Rural Development state director for California.
Agribusiness giant ADM has jumped into the cultured meat fray with its first strategic investment in the industry that will partner it with Eat Just Inc.’s GOOD Meat division.
AmericanHort has brought on Sara Neagu-Reed as director of advocacy and government affairs and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research has selected a new executive director.
