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Today’s agriculture headlines and expert perspectives serving farmers, ranchers, crop consultants, livestock nutritionists and the entire U.S. ag community.
Senate Agriculture Committee leadership worked into the night last night to pull together a bipartisan farm bill to present to the committee.
Lawmakers are concerned President Trump’s proposed tariffs on foreign cars under Section 232 could instigate retaliatory trade actions aimed at farmers.
A freshman Republican from one of the nation’s deepest-red districts said the rejection of House farm legislation on Friday is the latest setback for agriculture under GOP leadership.
Commodities were a big casualty of the escalating trade war between the U.S. and China, but are now set to be a major beneficiary of Beijing’s pledge to import more American goods.
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The proposed 25% tariff on U.S. soybean imports to China has the potential to send shockwaves through the domestic and global soybean markets.
Seven months before the 2018 midterm elections, Trump’s faceoff with China over trade has exposed an unexpected political vulnerability in what was supposed to be the Republican Party’s strongest region: rural America.
Officials signaled they expect recent hurricanes to have just a short-term impact on the economy.
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The order created a task force to examine “barriers to economic prosperity in rural America.”
The minutes also showed that just one official voted against the March interest rate hike.
Yum China’s KFC fast food chain will begin selling plant-based fried chicken for the first time in China over a limited time period, it said on Monday.
An estimated $7 billion of investment needed to meet 2025 goal of companies that want cage-free eggs.
The chicken sandwich war between Chick-Fil-A and Popeye’s has added more turmoil to the poultry industry. It may be coming in the form of a shortage of smaller chickens. John Phipps explains in John’s World.
Authorities in eastern Poland say bird flu is responsible for the deaths of at least 25,000 turkeys in poultry farms near the country’s borders with Ukraine and Belarus.
Federal authorities have indicted four officials from two chicken companies for allegedly fixing prices and rigging bids for broiler chickens across the United States.
One of the world’s largest food and beverage companies is investing heavily in sourcing of cage-free eggs and focusing on sustainable production practices for numerous additional commodities.
Tyson Foods announces bonuses due to federal tax overhaul
New rules on ammonia reporting for poultry farms need more time to properly analyze, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
The next few days are big for eggs, with egg hunts and Easter on Sunday.
When you visit a meat plant, humans are completing tasks like stacking pallets and packing chicken drumsticks. But Tyson Foods Inc. thinks robots can do it all.
John Phipps says there’s a shift in consumer preference when it comes to poultry. More prefer dark meat versus white meat. He explains in John’s World.
13 states sue to stop cage free eggs law in Massachusetts
A Pennsylvania fire that killed 7,000 turkeys has been deemed an accident.
Thousands of turkeys died at a Vermont farm.
Here’s another excuse to pig out this Thanksgiving: turkey prices are down.
How high is too high for a pile of chicken manure? Eight feet, apparently.
Mexican chain will add chicken shell to capitalize on trend.
Tennessee reported avian-influenza discovery last week, and now three poultry flocks in northern Alabama are being investigated.
Tyson Foods Inc. will invest $320 million in a new chicken-processing plant in northeastern Kansas employing 1,600 people so that it can keep up with a growing consumer demand for fresh poultry, the company and state officials announced Tuesday.