POLICY
Combined, this rule will impact over two billion gallons of renewable fuels demand.
Market analysts says the September WASDE did not fully account for the disease pressure and dry finish in the East in both the corn and soybean crop.
Auction barn license fees would increase nearly 1,700% as state ag department cites program deficits.
Consumers may think that food inflation helps farmers because they assume we’re getting more money for our crops and our livestock. Yet this is not true. We don’t receive the shop price. A lot of what consumers spend goes to retail overhead, fuel and transportation, tariffs, and more.
Labor costs continue to rise for California farmers, but skilled labor isn’t something growers are able to find with the current H-2A program. Labor experts, economists and farmers agree the current immigration system is “broken,” but a solution could be on the horizon.
A federal court has vacated the Biden-Harris administration’s rule that listed the lesser prairie-chicken as an endangered species.
Hypoxic Zone in Gulf of Mexico is focus of scientists
The National Corn Growers Association has issued a call to action to Congress and the Trump administration to help find demand for the 16.7 billion bushel corn crop.
If USDA predictions hold true, a massive U.S. corn crop is on the way.
The White House said on Monday to not expect public release of the Make America Healthy Again policy recommendations on Aug. 12