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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
The USDA announced Monday plans to help fund a new 25-acre container yard at the Port of Oakland to try help farmers get their rice, beef, pork, almonds, hay and other agricultural commodities into containers and on to ships.
The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced Monday that it is placing sanctions on three produce businesses for “failing to meet their contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the PACA (Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act).”
The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement goes into force today, but the U.S. dairy sector is already lodging an official complaint with the U.S. Trade Representative over the deal.
States are mostly reacting to the Ninth Circuit’s June 3 decision vacating registrations of three dicamba products by continuing to allow use of the herbicides under state registrations.
The U.S. and China have wrapped up their first round of face-to-face trade negotiations since talks fell apart in May and both sides agreed to meet again in September as President Donald Trump continues to tone down expectations of a quick resolution.
Today, the USDA will receive the last expressions of interests from states hoping to become the new home for the Economic Research Service, currently located in Washington, DC.
I was stunned when I saw the USDA announcement that they were moving their food, agriculture and economics research agencies outside of Washington, DC.
