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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).
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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.
Washington insider Marshall Matz reflects on the Obama administration’s recent gains in protecting food security around the globe. He spoke during the 2012 Farm Journal Forum.
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.
Tier 4 emission standards takes effect on January 1, 2011 and it is changing the way manufacturers make their engines.
The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee is expected to share his views on what the lame-duck Congress has in store for farm policy.
Organization says going over the fiscal cliff could push U.S. back into recession.
An accord will help ensure that post-patent products continue to meet global regulatory and stewardship obligations.
A panel of institutional farmland investors recently discussed their investment results and expectations.
Meanwhile, coffee farmers in Cuba experienced significant setbacks.
Rains improve moisture for developing wheat in the FSU.
This week’s Farm Journal Pulse shows farm country voters are leaning red.
Net income for co-ops was up more than 25% from 2010.
It left the borrowing rate charge for October at 0.125%.
Some programs affected by the farm bill lapse; others are not.
Among the Farm Journal Pulse poll participants, 74% feel presidential candidate Mitt Romney will win in November.
Higher crude oil prices contributed to rise in gas price outlook.
The book calls for the world address current food systems and agricultural practices.
USDA to purchase up to $170 million of pork, lamb, chicken and catfish for federal food nutrition assistance programs.
‘The real question is what happens in 2013, when the ethanol blending obligation increases to 13.8 billion gallons.” --Purdue University
Regards its permit program for concentrated animal feeding operations.
The worst drought in a generation dramatically improves the chances that Congress will pass a farm bill this year that preserves some form of price supports.