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After President Trump announced he would not implement tariffs against Mexico over immigration concerns, many in the Ag community, specifically the American Farm Bureau Federation breathed a sign of relief.  AFBF executive vice president Dale Moore said they are grateful a tariff fight was averted.  Mo...

Last week, the American Farm Bureau Federation welcomed news from the USDA of $16 billion in trade aid for farmers and ranchers, which will include direct payments to producers impacted by the retaliatory Chinese tariffs.  While farmers and ranchers would prefer open markets to sell their products, AFBF executive vice president Dale Moore said the aid is desperately needed.  ...

Farm groups, Ag lenders and the American Farm Bureau continue to press Congress to put aside politics and pass “urgently needed” disaster relief for the Midwest and other regions.   A $13 billion disaster packages, which includes $5 billion for Ag assistance has already stalled in the Senate.  Now, 135 farm ...

President Trump plans to press key issues of importance to agriculture in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address.  Trump in his third prime-time address to the nation from the U.S. House chamber will call on Congress to work with him on several fronts: infrastructure, lowering health care costs, immigration reform, ratifying the USMCA, and confronting China on unfair trade practices.  However,

Federal agencies that serve farmers and many others are back in business this week, but the challenges in getting services back up to speed after the longest shutdown ever will be daunting.  USDA, USTR, EPA, the IRS and other agencies will take weeks or months to recover from the 35-day partial government shutdown as they deal with mountains of backlogged work and housekeeping tasks.  US... Read M

The partial government shutdown of USDA and more than half a dozen other departments and agencies is now into its third week, with impacts being felt far and wide.  Farm Bill implementation, spring planting decisions, food stamp spending and many other activities that depend on government funding, are or will soon be in limbo, due to the partial government shutdown.  ...

The partial government shutdown of USDA and more than half a dozen other departments and agencies is now into its third week, with impacts being felt far and wide.  Farm Bill implementation, spring planting decisions, food stamp spending and many other activities that depend on government funding, are or will soon be in limbo, due to the partial government shutdown.   ...

As if farmers didn’t have enough problems with years of low-prices, trade and other troubles.  Now, the partial government shutdown, in its second week, is unnerving producers. “It’s always a challenge to implement a farm bill, but when the department doesn’t have funding, that’s certainly something that, we’re all holding our breath to see, A, how quickly that can get resolved, and B, how that he

The American Farm Bureau said producers are feeling a bit more confident as they head to the polls this week, a sharp change from a few weeks ago.  A few weeks ago, producers were worried about collapsing markets, the lack of trade deals with Mexico, Canada, South Korea, and the EU, as well as the near complete loss of top market, China.  Bu...

The Senate never took up a motion expected last week to go to conference with the House on the 2018 Farm Bill.  But that key procedural step is expected this week.  Many expected the Senate to act after the House already voted to move to Conference.   “...