U.S. Department of Agriculture
The FSA administrator dives into farmer financing, programs, vaccine rates and more.
USDA’s Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation talks carbon and goals.
Here is how some of the roughly $82 billion in agricultural spending could be dispersed.
Most of the report’s focus was on wheat; USDA made little change to corn and soybeans for both domestic and South American production.
The White House says 95.6% of USDA employees have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine or filed for an exemption, but the number who’ve received the vaccine is the lowest among reported federal agencies.
AgriTalk Host Chip Flory and Pro Farmer policy analyst Jim Wiesemeyer discuss plans Congress will probably have these last weeks of 2021, including the debt ceiling and the Build Back Better plan in the Senate.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed President Joe Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ plan, also known as the reconciliation package. This vote came after months of debate and countless rewrites to the plan.
AgriTalk’s Chip Flory is accompanied by Iowa Cattlemen’s CEO Matt Deppe on Tuesday as they discuss the new Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act that U.S. Senators are expected to propose in coming days.
The November Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates reports gave a lift to grain prices.
African swine fever (ASF) is a nasty bug and it’s getting closer to the U.S. The highly contagious viral infection doesn’t infect humans, but it is 100% fatal to hogs.