…as of February 4. China had previously made a significant soybean purchase of more than 1.5 million tons back in December. That first purchase since the trade relationship soured in…
Farm Bureau Sues to Block Flows Plan for Lower San Joaquin River
…which filed suit to block the plan. Adopted last December by the State Water Resources Control Board, the plan would redirect 30 to 50 percent of “unimpaired flows” in three…
Bay-Delta Plan Lawsuits Continue to Be Filed
…water board’s decision back in December. The lawsuit claims that the plan will end up costing the local economy more than $230 million and nearly 1,000 jobs without providing the…
EU Won’t Include Agriculture In Trade Talks With U.S.
…non-tariff barriers to U.S. farm products. The organization and 52 other food and farm groups in mid-December sent a letter to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, urging the…
HLB Detections Increased in 2018 as Monitoring Efforts Intensify
…ACP quarantine after a psyllid was discovered in December 2018 on a residential tree in Novato, California. Breeding populations of ACP were also found at multiple residential properties in Soledad…
Longest Recorded Government Shutdown Impacting Key Ag Programs
…stopped producing several important informational reports, with farmers working in the dark since the last data report was released on December 22. Agricultural Export Sales, Cold Storage and Cattle on…
FSA Offices Reopen for Three Days While Government Shutdown Continues
…been received to identify priority items. Other services that can be performed include the processing of payments made on or before December 31, 2018, as well as continuing expiring financing…
Chinese Trade Conditions May Be Poised to Improve
…any further tariffs was agreed to back in December. While neither country elaborated on any particular details pertaining to the trade conditions, both sides are reporting that the negotiations are…
Navigating the H-2A Guest Worker Program
…fallen short. A Department of Labor proposal to “streamline” the system was due in December 2018 but has not materialized. The other major change in 2018 was an Agriculture Department…
More Virulent Newcastle Disease in Commercial Poultry
…December 2018 discovery, virulent Newcastle disease had not been identified in commercial poultry since 2003. APHIS reports that the detection of more virulent Newcastle disease is related to the outbreak…
ELD Exemption Remains in Place During Government Shutdown
…with paper ledgers and has been a significant issue for the trucking industry since it was first enacted on December 18, 2017. The omnibus spending bill that President Trump signed…
USDA Extends Deadline for Market Facilitation Program Applications
…in a press release. Market Facilitation Program applications were originally due by January 15, 2019, but the government shutdown that began on December 22, 2018, complicated the application process. The…
First Snow Survey of the Year Reveals a Strong Start
…DWR’s Snow Survey Section John King said during the press conference. “Despite some late-November, early-December storms the statewide snow water content is 67 percent to-date, according to our statewide snow…
Court Agrees with USDA in GIPSA Ruling
About a year after a petition was filed, the GIPSA ruling was finally issued by a U.S. District Court on December 21. The ruling stated that the U.S. Department of…