Governmental Regulations
Lawmakers had all year to work out a budget/funding level for fiscal year (FY) 2023, which starts Oct. 1. Of course, they didn’t make it and now, again, there’s a need for a stopgap spending bill.
Welcome to a festering landowner-hunter conflict and a lawsuit launched by rural property owners against the state. If persistent hunting dog encroachment affects a farming operation, is compensation in order?
As we talk and argue about the same stuff, John Phipps says many crises in ag that alarmed us a decade ago, simmered to something like stalemates with no point of view dominating as we feared.
Fufeng Group recently bought 300 acres of land in North Dakota and the proximity to a U.S. military base has many concerned. But this isn’t the first time questions have been raised about China’s stake in the U.S.
Europe and the Netherlands have been dealing with an increasingly incendiary political situation pitting the country’s farmers against EU government plans to decrease greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030.
“I feel like every day is one day closer to having the President declare a climate emergency,” says Newlin. “Once that happens, I don’t know what it will mean for ag, or what it’s going to open up the door to.”
The Next Generation Fuels Act—originally introduced to the House in 2021—was unveiled in the Senate on Tuesday. If passed, manufacturers will have to release vehicles with higher blend capabilities by 2026.
Over the next year, provincial governments are supposed to come up with specific plans to reduce nitrogen. It is important for policymakers and the public to hear farmers so they know that ag is part of the solution.
The Justice Department failed in its third attempt at prosecution of chicken industry executives for price-fixing and bid rigging.
ProFarmer’s Brian Grete says these market dips coming out of Independence Day weekend generally set the tone for the weeks to come.