Plan will minimize business disruption from foreign animal diseases The National Pork Board, with major support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is creating a Secure Pork Supply Plan to…
NFU Urges Immediate Adoption of Farmer Fair Practices Rules
…the intent of the Packers and Stockyards Act to provide individual farmers and ranchers with protection from the most egregious abuses by meatpackers. In some courts, contract poultry growers have…
NCGA Launches Open Innovation Challenge to Find the Next Big Thing for Corn
…technologies that will help drive innovation,” said Larry Hoffmann, a farmer from Wheatland, North Dakota and chairman of NCGA’s Corn Productivity and Quality Action Team. “In addition to researchers who…
Monthly Farm Economy Survey Holds Steady
…10-point decline from its April reading. The latest survey also asked farmers about the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Results show 61 percent of respondents thought the…
Canada, U.S., Ag Leaders Talk Trade
The top agriculture leaders from the United States and Canada met earlier this week, discussing trade and the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. While no negotiations took…
Farm Bureau Asks Senate Committee to Advance EPA Nominee Susan Bodine
American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall has asked the leadership of a Senate committee to approve the nomination of Susan Bodine to Assistant Administrator for the Office of Enforcement…
Conaway Applauds Delay of Compliance Dates for FSMA Agricultural Water Standards
…Safety Modernization Act’s (FSMA) produce safety rule: “Producers need additional time to come into compliance with FSMA’s produce safety rules, and I commend the FDA for providing this needed flexibility….
Perdue Statement on Sugar Agreement with Mexico
…up to the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. I maintain that if the rules are fair and the playing field is level, American agricultural products will succeed,…
USDA Seeks Nominations for the National Organic Standards Board
…to fill an unexpired term will serve for the remainder of the 5-year term of the vacating member. The NOSB was established under the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990…
Trump to Talk Rural Infrastructure Improvements
The national infrastructure will get some attention from the White House this week as the administration gets set to put out details on a $1 trillion infrastructure plan. Politico’s Morning…
Legislation Would End Cuba Trade Embargo
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators has come together to co-sponsor legislation that would end the Cuban trade embargo. The bill is called the “Freedom to Export to Cuba Act”…
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman on U.S. Beef to China
…Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts says the plan gives U.S. beef access to more than one billion consumers… Roberts told the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) recently that trade…
Conference Instills Leadership in FFA Members
…apply what they have learned to a hands-on activity. Members will also analyze the needs of their communities, develop wide-ranging and high-impact community service initiatives and implement their plans with…
Rollback of Cuba Policies Will Harm U.S. Agriculture
…Trump is largely based on discussions with Cuban-American Republican lawmakers from Florida, Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, and Senator Marco Rubio. The announcement would come eight months after candidate Trump promised Cuban-Americans…