Category Archives: Agriculture News

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, and two other coalitions with dozens of trade associations involved are backing legislation dealing with tariffs in national security situations. Leg...

Politico says the month-plus government shutdown has left U.S. Department of Agriculture officials with quite the backlog of commodity reports. They also have a lot of other numbers waiting to be crun...

The U.S. dairy sector is worried about access to the lucrative Japan market. Dairy groups and officials are sending a brand-new, industry-funded study to President Donald Trump, administration officia...

A senior USDA official says the amount of money sent to farmers in California and across the nation to help mitigate the financial damage from the trade war may not be as much as expected. An Agricult...

The Department of Agriculture will soon reopen all Farm Service Agency offices in California and nationwide. USDA has temporarily recalled all of the more than 9,700 FSA employees to keep offices open...

A new ag labor bill by California Senator Dianne Feinstein and U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren would allow certain foreign agricultural workers to receive permanent U.S. residency. The California Demo...

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American Farm Bureau policy experts talked trade during a workshop at the organization's 100th annual convention. Farm Bureau will be keeping an eye on a lot of things this year when it comes to trade...

Ten Republicans joined Democrats in the House of Representatives to pass a fiscal year 2019 agriculture appropriations bill. A DTN report says the bill is not supported by Senate and House Republican ...

U.S. tariff collections increased, expectedly, in 2018 as President trump waged a trade war on China, along with other tariff heavy trade policies. The U.S. government collected 6.7 billion more in cu...