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The Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee held annual hearings last week regarding the president’s trade agenda. Dave Salmonsen, American Farm Bureau Federation Senior Government Affairs Director, says its an opportunity for the administration and Congress to collaborate. “This is a required report in which the administration lays out what their accomplishments […]

Every month, Dr. Glynn Tonsor, a livestock market economist with Kansas State University, releases a Meat Demand Monitor. Tonsor says the latest data from March shows some  good news. “The good news for the industry is retail demand – so think to go the grocery store for consumption at home – was up on five […]

We are near the midpoint of climatological spring. I’m Mike Davis, and I’m talking with climatologist Corey Davis about this. Corey, it seems like we’ve been in spring for quite a while though. “Yeah, it really does. Mike, it’s hard to believe it’s only a month and a half into the season because when you […]

This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. There is not a lot new to talk about in the row crop markets right now. Brazil is finishing up their soybean harvest. They are expected to be past 90% by the end of the week. Basis is […]

During a recent visit to our nation’s capital by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, a bipartisan group of senators wanted to see the Biden Administration apply pressure to get fresh U.S. potatoes into Japan. National Potato Council CEO Kam Quarles says the potato industry was watching. “In conjunction with that visit, you had a group […]

Rural Wyoming needs more vocational teachers to sustain its workforce pipeline; Ohio environmental advocates fear harm from a proposal to open 40-thousand forest acres to fracking; and rural communities build bike trail systems to promote nature, boost the economy.

On Wednesday, the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and the NC Dairy Producers Association rolled out a big marketing campaign and when I say big, I mean six-foot-nine 275 pounds of big. DJ Burns, the man in the middle of NC State’s NCAA basketball Final Four tournament run, is the new spokesman for their chocolate […]

New data released this month from the Environmental Protection Agency shows agriculture decreased its greenhouse gas emissions in 2022. The EPA recently released the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2022. American Farm Bureau Federation Economist Danny Munch explains the results. “Overall greenhouse gas emissions from all sources increased by 1.3 percent between […]

On behalf of several Texas farmers, the Southeastern Legal Foundation and the Mountain States Legal Foundation filed a preliminary injunction regarding disaster payments asking a federal court to stop the Biden Administration’s USDA from funneling disaster and COVID-19 relief funds to certain farmers based on race and gender. Precision Risk Management says the plaintiffs are […]

The USDA’s April Wheat Outlook shows global wheat ending stocks for 2023-2024 are projected down this month by 0.6 million metric tons to 258.3 million metric tons. The agency says that’s the lowest level in eight years. The biggest factor in this month’s decline is India’s wheat stocks, which are forecast down 2.1 million metric […]