Category Archives: Agriculture News
Safe American Food Exports Act Introduced
Lawmakers introduced the Safe American Food Exports Act. The legislation would codify USDA's role in negotiating regionalization agreements that allow livestock, poultry, and other animal products fro...
Jun 13, 2023
New USDA Tool For Small Businesses
A new tool from the Department of Agriculture seeks to help industry and small disadvantaged entities identify potential opportunities for selling their products and services to the department.Small b...
Jun 12, 2023
New Research on Actual Water Use by Agriculture
California Farm Bureau is posting on its website recent scientific work by the California Bountiful Foundation showing that California farmers and ranchers use only 15% of the total water the state re...
Jun 02, 2023
West Coast Ports Losing Business as Negotiations Continue
West Coast ports in the U.S. started negotiating a new labor contract just over a year ago. While working without a new contract in place isn't unheard of, the contract has now been expired for over 1...
Jun 01, 2023
USDA Extends Deadline for Revenue Loss Programs
USDA is extending deadlines for the Emergency Relief Program Phase Two and the Pandemic Assistance Revenue Program to July 14. The goal is to give producers more time to apply for the assistance. Also...
May 31, 2023
Meat Exports Show Mixed Results
A USDA report says a comparison between first-quarter 2023 exports of seven animal products with the exports from the same time last year shows some improvement.Four of the categories were year-over-y...
May 19, 2023
House Ag Spending Bill Revealed
The House Agriculture Appropriations bill provides $26.3 billion for total funding.But that’s $532 million below the 2023 funding level. The bill provides $17.1 billion to the Department of Agri...
May 18, 2023
Proposed Tinplate Steel Tariffs Could Impact Food Industry And Consumers
The Consumer Brands Association says implementing proposed tariffs of up to 300% on tinplate steel imports would increase the cost of canned foods and products by up to 30%. The association released t...
May 10, 2023
Farm Income Decline Varies by Region
After reaching recent highs in 2021 and 2022, the average net cash income of U.S. farm businesses is expected to decline by 18% in 2023 compared with 2022. According to the USDA's Economic Research Se...
May 09, 2023
Smaller Cattle Herd Squeezing Meatpacker Profits
America's beef cow herd hasn't been this small since 1962. Drought and the high cost of feed forced producers to cut their herd sizes instead of keeping animals for breeding. Livestock producers who f...
May 08, 2023
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