FSA Administrator Zach Ducheneaux, in an interview with DTN, noted that there is no guarantee crop prices will stay high. This year, high crop prices caused by the war in Ukraine have focused more attention on putting land into production rather than into the Conservation...
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by Jerry Hagstrom , DTN Political Correspondent
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
Under a provision that the U.S. maritime industry often protects, at least half of Title II food aid shipments (by tonnage) must be carried on U.S. flagged vessels, staffed by crews in which at least 75% of the sailors are U.S. citizens. It typically leads to significantly higher...
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
Farm groups and members of Congress commended the Biden administration for tapping the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust fund to provide food aid. It's the first time since 2014 the federal government has tapped the fund.
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
The Senate Agriculture Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday meant to focus on legislation by Senate members focusing on cattle markets. The House Agriculture Committee will follow up the next day with a hearing that is expected to include top executives from the nation's...
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
An executive order signed by President Joe Biden on Friday includes provisions for federal departments such as USDA to examine the impacts of deforestation from agricultural commodity imports from countries that are turning a blind eye or encouraging large amounts of...
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
Next week will be a busy the U.S. House and Senate Agriculture Committees as both bodies have multiple hearings lined up, including the first field hearing on the next possible farm bill.
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts signed legislation on Monday authorizing a $500 million canal meant to counter what Nebraska sees as attempts in Colorado to potentially hold back future water flows on the South Platte River.
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
The Senate and House Agriculture Committees will be delving into some hearings on livestock markets and the farm bill towards the end of April. That includes a Senate hearing on the cattle markets bill, and a possible House hearing with the CEOs of the four major packers.
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
President Joe Biden will travel to Menlo, Iowa, later this afternoon to make his announcement allowing year-round E15 sales to return during a visit to a 150-million-gallon Poet ethanol plant. Poet is the world's largest producer of ethanol products.
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
President Joe Biden will travel to Menlo, Iowa, later this afternoon to make his announcement allowing year-round E15 sales to return during a visit to a 150-million-gallon POET ethanol plant. POET is the world's largest producer of ethanol products.
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
President Joe Biden will travel to Des Moines, then to Menlo, Iowa, a small town about 45 minutes west of Des Moines with a POET Bioprocessing plant that has capacity for 150 million gallons of ethanol. Biofuel groups will watch closely to see what kind of announcements may come...
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by Jerry Hagstrom , DTN Political Correspondent
Members of Congress appeared open to pork producers' request for money to protect against the risk of African Swine Fever. Lawmakers were more divided about getting into a Pacific-region trade agreement, or allowing year-round foreign guestworkers.
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
The Biden administration still does not have a chief agricultural negotiator at the U.S. Trade Representative's Office, and the Department of Agriculture doesn't have an undersecretary for foreign trade. Both positions require nominations from the president and Senate...
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
In the letter to NGFA, USDA also cites that a considerable proportion of currently enrolled CRP acres are in areas experiencing significant levels of drought. USDA added, Production those acres would be marginal at best, and there is no realistic way to convert all CRP acres to...
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
With the challenges in food security and stability globally, the U.S. could use some top people in the Biden administration focused on agricultural exports. A key trade nominee withdrew last month, and the White House has not submitted a name for a USDA undersecretary.
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
Under the bill, USDA would two years to set up mandatory minimum cash market trade for five to seven regions of the country. The bill also would require USDA to create a library of market contracts between packers and producers. Packers also would have to detail their...
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
Overall, the White House proposes a $5.8 trillion budget for fiscal year 2023 with USDA's total budget outlays at $261 billion, about the same cost as 2022. The budget contains several tax changes that failed to move in the U.S. Senate last year, including a proposal to raise the...
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by Jerry Hagstrom , DTN Political Correspondent
Key agribusiness groups and the American Farm Bureau Federation on Wednesday urged Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to allow holders of contracts under the Conservation Reserve Program to plant crops on those lands to increase supply during the Ukraine war.
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
There continues to be some repeated themes about climate change, conservation programs and crop insurance coming out of the House Agriculture Committee as Ranking Member Glenn "GT" Thompson, R-Pa., pushes back on tying climate change initiatives to USDA's main farm-bill...
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by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
In the magazine "The Atlantic," staff writer David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, wrote "The U.S. Subsidy That Empowers Putin." In Frum's essay he makes the case that "the ethanol program" has helped leverage Russian President Vladimir Putin's hand...
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