Category Archives: Agriculture News
Farm Bill Work to Begin in Eight Weeks
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway says work on the 2018 Farm Bill will start within the next eight weeks. Speaking during a farm bill listening session in his home state of Texas, Cona...
Aug 02, 2017
Poultry Producers Comment on NAFTA
U.S. poultry producers say the modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement could bring trade improvements. The National Chicken Council and the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council togeth...
Aug 01, 2017
Visalia Holds Boots, Brews & Bacon Fest
Image courtesy of the Visalia Convention Center VISALIA (KMJ) — A bacon eating contest is one part of a new festival taking place in Visalia this weekend. Organizers hope “Boots, Brews, &a...
Jul 28, 2017
EPA Formally Proposes WOTUS Withdrawal
The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will formally propose to withdraw the "Waters of the U.S. Rule," a controversial Obama-era rule on clean water. This move will ...
Jul 28, 2017
U.K. and U.S. Taking First Steps to Trade Deal
British International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer have taken the first steps towards a U.S.-U.K. free trade agreement. They recently met to create a ...
Jul 26, 2017
Growing Crops Indoors in California
The Soft Bank Group is leading a $200 million investment into an indoor vertical farm venture in California. The Soft Bank Vision Fund is investing in Plenty, a San Francisco startup that claims it ha...
Jul 24, 2017
U.S. & China Sign Agreement For U.S. Rice Exports
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reached a final agreement with Chinese officials to allow the United States to begin exporting rice to China for the...
Jul 21, 2017
Farmers Worry About the Future of Health Care
It may not be front and center in agriculture like the farm bill discussion is, but farmers have a lot to worry about as Congress debates the future of health care. Politico's Morning Ag Report says f...
Jul 18, 2017
Chinese Buying Dow Seed Business in Brazil
A Chinese investment fund has paid $1.1 billion to purchase Dow Chemical Company's corn seed business in Brazil, a move Reuters calls a further sign of China’s fast-expanding role in the global ...
Jul 13, 2017
Southern Cotton Producers Heading to California
Twelve cotton producers from Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri will travel west to observe cotton and other agricultural operations in California's San Joaquin Valley during th...
Jul 11, 2017
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