Farmers and ranchers have just a few more days to file important paperwork with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or face penalties for failing to do so. The deadline to…
AFBF Endorses Bills to Repeal Death Tax
The American Farm Bureau Federation has endorsed bipartisan legislation in the House and Senate to repeal the federal estate tax. AFBF President Zippy Duvall said the bills are needed because…
Geneticist Edward Buckler Awarded First NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences
…find solutions to agricultural problems affecting Americans every day. ARS conducts research to develop and transfer solutions to agricultural problems of high national priority and provide information access and dissemination…
Maintaining Pork Exports to Canada, Mexico Critical
The National Pork Producers Council committed to work with the Trump administration to preserve tariff-free market access for U.S. pork exports to Canada and Mexico. The administration is planning to…
Six California Projects that Reduce Pesticide Use
…Cotton Pest Control Board, California Department of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Plant Health Inspection Service, and the National Cotton Council. Media interested in this project can…
Ag Reacts to Trump TPP Move
…up with policies aimed at opening foreign markets for American farm products. American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall said in a statement: “We viewed TPP as a positive agreement…
National Peanut Butter Day
Cathy Isom fills us in on why National Peanut Butter Day is celebrating a whole day devoted to what could very well be America’s favorite protein. That’s coming up on…
EU Dairy Farmers Spray Milk Powder in Price Protest
Dairy farmers from the European Union sprayed milk powder onto a European Council building in Brussels during a protest over dairy prices. The EU recently purchased large quantities of skimmed…
ChemChina Files for U.S. Antitrust Approval of Syngenta Takeover
…for more information and a longer review period. The proposed transaction already has been cleared by a U.S. national security panel and won antitrust approval in Australia. The European Union…
Fourth Quarter 2016 Farm Lending Slows
…the increase to a slower rate of loan repayments, but the increase in farm debt was the smallest increase in more than three years. From the National Association of Farm…
Three Named as USDA Deputy Secretary Candidates
…Senate to act. A team assisting Clovis will hire staff and begin crafting policy until Perdue is allowed to take office. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting news service….
Trump EPA Plan Calls for Eliminating WOTUS
…or federal district courts. The Trump administration could choose not to defend WOTUS in court, effectively killing enforcement of the rule. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting news service….
Agri View: Choice of Meat
Everett Griner talks about consumer choice of wild meat over farm produced meat increasing in today’s Agri View. Choice of Meat Here is an interesting report. Americans are eating record…
NMPF, USDEC Urge Trump Administration Not to Cede Export Opportunities
…Partnership (TPP) agreement, which NMPF and USDEC had supported because it contained benefits for America’s dairy farmers. A retreat from TPP “must not lead to a retreat from economic engagement…