What’s included in the White House’s recent Ukraine aid proposal? AgriTalk Host Chip Flory reads between the lines with the Biden administration’s Candace Vahlsing, as industry leaders examine the potential consequences.
The Biden administration is calling on Congress to provide additional resources overseas to “ensure Ukraine’s democracy prevails over Putin’s aggression,” including $500 million dedicated to domestic ag production.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan hints at a major uptick in renewable fuel blending obligations to be announced on June 3rd, as ethanol production is stunted by railway inefficiencies.
Scientists in Ohio are testing a new product to be mounted on the rear of combines, effectively killing weed seeds on-site to reduce weed populations year-over-year.
We spoke with three weather experts this week to gauge when the best time is to press “start” on planting, what to expect this growing season and how you can use weather as a chess piece in your marketing plans.
Heartland, a biotech company, says it has solved the Traveling Salesman Problem and intends to put the software in an app they’re calling ReMap that “saves farmers fuel and time.”
The war in Ukraine will dictate food prices, according to Vilsack: “We don’t really know what the impact is going to be on Ukraine’s crop this year, or what it’s going to look like in terms of exportability.”
Nearly 4 million acres of CRP expire this year. Secy. Vilsack wrote to National Grain and Feed Association’s Mike Seyfert to share converting CRP is “unfeasible.” However, Vilsack did offer one caveat in his letter.
Under Secy. Moffitt says her objective is to ensure producers have access to USDA dollars: “We see there’s a need for qualified technical expertise to capture the projects for producers and MPPTA will address that.”
