Ag Policy Blog

Citing the Biden administration's efforts to promote competition in the economy, Agriculture Secretary released details on the multiple announcements to open up new loans for small packers while also proposing new rules for major poultry processors that contract with farmers...

National Farmers Union, a Democratic-leaning group, weighed in with a letter also expressing concern with the Solicitor General's "recent change in long-standing policy" affecting the crop-protection tools farmers rely on. A letter earlier this week from 54 other agricultural...

On Tuesday, USDA Rural Development put out a news release about $770 million for 154 investments in rural business in 36 states and Puerto Rico. A big chunk of the funding, more than one quarter of all the loan guarantee funds, went to buy, refinance, construct or remodel...

The House Agriculture Committee advanced several bills in areas, including a bill that would create a special investigator office at USDA to investigate meatpacking market manipulation issues.

In a call to reporters from Poland following a meeting of G7 ministers in Germany, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack noted that 80% of last year's Ukrainian crop had already been shipped before Russia began blocking the Black Sea ports, and said that while the remaining grain...

The 26 World Food Prize laureates, a mix of scientists and food-policy experts, published an open letter "to set the world back on track," calling for the G7 "to urgently leverage food systems to tackle these issues."

Responding to concerns of higher food prices, higher costs for farmers and the need to boost global food production, the White House laid out three initiatives meant to encourage farmers to plant and ideally lower input costs in the future. The moves come as President Joe...

Responding to concerns of higher food prices, higher costs for farmers and the need to boost global food production, the White House laid out three initiatives meant to encourage farmers to plant and ideally lower input costs in the future. The moves come as President Joe...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack talked Tuesday about distressed farm families, but his figures were higher than USDA's actual totals of farmers with delinquent loans.

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...

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...