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USDA will seek public comments for 60 days.
Very minimal drought improvement across the U.S. was reported last week.
Highlights from USDA’s 2012 crop production summary report.
Does the 2012 drought mean sky-high crop insurance premiums for 2013? Absolutely not, says William Murphy, administrator of USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA).
The law is the biggest change to food industry oversight since 1938.
Farm cooperatives posted record sales and income in 2011, beating the previous record sales year of 2008 by $10 billion, according to USDA.
The legislation would avert the milk cliff.
Lawmakers looking to avert automatic budget cuts and tax increases next year may include a package of cuts to ag subsidies as part of a bill.