hagstrom report

According to the Hagstrom Report, the Democrats’ budget reconciliation bill will contain language to address the court cases brought against a program to provide debt relief directed to minority farmers. Senate Ag Chair Debbie Stabenow made that known after a committee business meeting last week. W... Read More ...

The National Farmers Union praised the Federal Trade Commission’s 5-0 vote to adopt a policy statement to ramp up law enforcement against repair restrictions on equipment. Those restrictions prevent small businesses, workers, consumers, and government entities from fixing their products. ...

Earlier this week, the North American Meat Institute defended its members against allegations of wrongdoing in the cattle market. The response follows a closed-door meeting between livestock and farm groups focusing on ways to improve cattle market transparency and a letter from Republican lawmakers to the Department of Justice ...

Georgia Democrat David Scott is the most senior member of the House Agriculture Committee after current Chair Collin Peterson. The Hagstrom Report said Scott is throwing his hat into the ring as someone who’d like to be the next Chair after Peterson, who recently lost his re-election bid to Michelle Fischbach. Sco ...

Senate Ag Committee Member Debbie Stabenow is leading a group of 15 senators asking Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue to reverse a decision that excluded dairy farmers from getting coronavirus aid for losses from meat produced from breeding animals ...

A recent study published in the trade journal Biomass and Bioenergy concludes that there is no evidence of food price increases because of biofuels.  There’s also no evidence of other lands converting to agriculture because of biofuel.   T...

The Hagstrom Report calls it a “sign of things to come.” House Democrats introduced a bill designed to stop the Trump Administration’s idea of placing the Agriculture Department’s Economic Research Service under the USDA chief economist.  The bill would also p...

Organizations that use government funds to promote U.S. commodity purchases in foreign countries could face some funding challenges in the near future.  The Hagstrom Report says that will likely happen if Congress doesn’t pass a farm bill by September 30th.   “In th...

Trade officials from Canada returned to the U.S. Wednesday as part of NAFTA talks. Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland resumed talks with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, but there are so far no major developments on the contentious issues being discussed, including dairy market access and the dispute settlement mechanism, top issues for Canada, which wants protection to remain