…eligible production coverage to five million pounds, as well as a lowering of Tier 1 premium rates. The first five million pounds of Tier 1 production will also receive coverage…
Controlled Environment Ag Growing
…high rates according to the report, partially due to the price premiums and significantly higher yields that technology, such as hydroponics, provides. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting News…
Nationwide Reveals Most Common Agribusiness Insurance Claims
…increased safety precautions.” Other top agribusiness claims include falls, food-related claims, animal bites, glass breakage, weather damage and fire or loss. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service….
Perdue Names Bruce Summers AMS Administrator
…grading, laboratory and quality verification programs. The agency also manages the USDA Market News Service, which provides free, unbiased price and sales information on farm commodities, and ensures fair trade…
Agri View: Who Loses in the Event of a Trade War?
…Iowa farmer $120 dollars to raise a hog to market weight. When that trade war talk began to circulate, the cost fell to $100 dollars. Or soybeans. The price fluctuates….
Conaway Comments on Trump Challenging India Market Practices
…the Trump administration, contend that India is under-reporting its market price support for wheat and rice. The U.S. says that India’s market price support for wheat and rice far exceeded…
USDA Projects Smaller Corn, Soybean Crops
…summer growing season weather. The season-average farm price for corn is projected at $3.30 to $4.30 per bushel, up 40 cents at the midpoint from 2017/18. Meanwhile, the U.S. soybean…
American Farmland Trust Study: U.S. Farmland Shrinking
…“Farms Under Threat: The State of America’s Farmland” report, according to American Farmland Trust, shows the loss of farmland “is serious” and “will accelerate” unless action is taken. The report…
First-Ever WTO Counter Notification Against India’s Market Price Support Issued by U.S.
…with India’s notification of its market price support for rice and wheat. These include issues with the quantity of production used in market price support calculations, the exclusion of state-level…
Agri View: Fruit and Vegetable Labor Problem
…is causing this price increase is labor. Farmers are dealing with two problems. Both labor related. In the first place, it is getting harder and harder to find the labor…
Secretary Perdue Commits to Prioritizing Food Waste Solutions
…feed everyone.’” Secretary Perdue meets with Rep. Chellie Pingree (ME-1), Rep. David Young (IA-3), and food and agricultural stakeholders to discuss solutions to America’s food waste and loss problems. Background:…
Food Price Index up 2.7 Percent
The Global Food Price Index has increased two percent since this time last year. Released last week, the monthly record of global food prices by the Food and Agriculture Organization…
Analyst: Labor Shortages and Volatile Feed Prices Ahead for Meat Industry
…Meat Institute this week there are implications for the meat industry, including a pending labor shortage and possible volatile commodity prices ahead, according to meat industry publication Meatingplace. Close warns…
Dairy MPP Enrollment Deadline a Month Away
…coverage for 2018, even if they enrolled during the previous sign-up period last fall. Coverage choices made this spring for calendar year 2018 will be retroactive to January 1, 2018….