Policy

Corn Stocks Up 11 Percent from March 2009
Indirect land use change penalizes the biofuels industry
Minneapolis newspaper editorial urges the banning of raw milk sales.
Lawmakers’ road map is taking them through farm country.
The government is making plans for legislation to reduce the U.S.’s carbon footprint. Will agriculture receive a stamp of approval?
Poll results from the recent Ag Executive Forum
CNH has confirmed that it is choosing selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology as the method to meet interim Tier 4 standards.
The afternoon panels testifying in the USDA and U.S. Department of Justice hearing on dairy market consolidation in offered a fascinating lesson in the dynamics of fluid milk markets.
The Internet lit up last week about a possible Environmental Protection Agency greenhouse gas tax on dairy cows that would amount to a $175 per cow annual fee simply for ruminating.
Links to university calculators to help you decide if you should enroll in ACRE
But analysts disagree on action to take.
The Ohioans for Livestock Care coalition and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) have reached an agreement to implement eight farm-animal care reform issues.
In an effort to “recharge America,” USDA announced this week it is developing a regional strategy to help achieve the U.S. Renewable Fuels Standards.
President Barack Obama’s budget plan for fiscal year 2010 contains more problematic details than most expected. At least one of the ag provisions is labeled dead on arrival. The provision: Deny direct payments to farmers with gross sales of more than $500,000—and shift those dollars to nutrition efforts.
Obama Taps Iowa’s Vilsack to Head USDA
The cost of calling a local renderer is likely to go up in the very near future.
Report on cereals
Not even last-minute glitches prevented the outcome
John McCoy, of Orthman Manufacturing Inc. and President of the Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association, said the Association is among the many agricultural groups urging the Ways & Means House Committee to make permanent the five-year depreciation schedule for agriculture equipment
California dairy producer groups want the state agriculture department to reconsider its recent decision to remove the whey factor from the milk pricing formula.
The agency touches ag more than ever
Consumer wishes and wants travel quickly up and down the food chain and can drastically alter the entire food system. “Consumers in the developed world have come to look at the food system, I think, as something as a utility,” says William Hallman, of the Food Policy Institute at Rutgers University. “You turn on the faucet and orange juice comes out, you got to the supermarket and the food is just there.”
See Day 1 at Farm Journal Forum.
USDA’ s soybean progress ratings for the week ended May 2.
USDA’ s corn progress ratings for the week ended May 2.
USDA’ s soybean progress ratings for the week ended May 16.
USDA’ s corn progress ratings for the week ended May 9.
USDA’s spring wheat planting progress rating for the week ended May 23.
USDA’s spring wheat planting progress rating for the week ended June 13.
The $19.1 billion disaster aid bill passed by the Senate on Thursday waives the adjusted gross income for the recently announced 2019 Market Facilitation Program (MFP).
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