Ag News

12.18.2017

• Washington Week Ahead: GOP Eyes Tax Cuts, Ag Disaster Aid in Pre-Christmas Rush
• Secretary Perdue Applauds President Trump’s Leadership on Reducing Regulations
• Farmers And Families First Program Launches Campaign To Block Bayer/Monsanto Deal
• Texas High Plains Cotton: Record Crop in 2017
• USDA Adjusts Projections for 2018 Ag Imports, Exports
• ERS Report: America’s Diverse Family Farms: PDF
• The Evolving Distribution of Payments From Commodity, Conservation, and Federal Crop Insurance Programs
• Farm Business: 7 Crops Show a Declining Cost of Production
• How Gene Editing Will Boost Crop Yields
• Roberts Applauds Decision on Organic Rules
• Drunk Drivers And Farming Don’t Mix
• USDA Withdraws Livestock and Poultry Organic Rule
• Digital Book Appeals To Young People Planning Their Careers: View the Careers in Agriculture E-Book
• USDA: Ag Exports And Imports In The 2018 Fiscal Year Forecast To Closely Mirror 2017
• USDA Announces New Information Technology Operating Model

12.15.2017

• USDA to Revamp its Information Technology
• La Niña: Odds to Stay All Winter Hit 80%
• Weekly Export Sales: Wheat Finally Finds Footing
• How to Snap Slacker Soils Into Shape
• The Top 10 Stories From Agriculture.com in 2017
• Interest Rate Hike a Double Edge Sword for Ag
• Lawsuit Challenges Cancellation of GIPSA Rule
• FCC Votes to End Obama-era Net Neutrality Rules (Which May Leave Rural Areas at an Internet Disadvantage
• Farm Credit Administration Releases Report on Ag’s Financial Condition
• USDA Highlights $40 Million in Infrastructure Investments in Rural Communities
• USDA Announces New IT Operating Model
• Nat’l Cotton Council Thanks Trade Rep Lightizer For His Support
• Farm Aid Grants $732,351 To 83 Family Farm, Rural Service And Urban Agriculture Organizations
• Declining Cost of Production and Farm Policy
• House Ag Committee Launches Farm Bill Landing Page
• Congressional Republicans Hammer Out Tax Plan Details
• Long-Term Price Cycles Turn Higher for Corn, Soybeans
• Perdue Heads Into 2018 With Only Half of His Executive Team
• Roberts Emphasizes Agriculture Security
• Time for Ag Tech to Simplify According to Google Exec
• Perdue Working Toward Solutions for Rural America
• Witnesses Assess U.S. biosecurity Infrastructure as Inadequate
• Republican Governors Meeting With VP Pence To Discuss NAFTA
• Secretary Perdue Issues Statement On WTO’s Maximum Pesticide Residue Levels
• Wheat Associates: Trade Rep Lighthizer Defends U.S. Agriculture At WTO Ministerial
• 17 Countries Sign Statement Regarding Pesticide Use

12.14.2017

• House Ag Committee Launches Farm Bill Landing Page
• Congressional Republicans Hammer Out Tax Plan Details
• Long-Term Price Cycles Turn Higher for Corn, Soybeans
• Perdue Heads Into 2018 With Only Half of His Executive Team
• Roberts Emphasizes Agriculture Security
• Time for Ag Tech to Simplify According to Google Exec
• Perdue Working Toward Solutions for Rural America
• Witnesses Assess U.S. biosecurity Infrastructure as Inadequate
• Republican Governors Meeting With VP Pence To Discuss NAFTA
• Secretary Perdue Issues Statement On WTO’s Maximum Pesticide Residue Levels
• Wheat Associates: Trade Rep Lighthizer Defends U.S. Agriculture At WTO Ministerial
• 17 Countries Sign Statement Regarding Pesticide Use

12.13.2017

• Peterson Sees Farm Bill ‘Sooner Rather Than Later’ in 2018
• Roberts: Trade Is More Than a Product Crossing a Border
• Funding, Timing Will Be Critical Issues for Farm Bill Debate
• December WASDE Throws No Curveballs
• USDA Lowers Corn Stocks Estimate, Raises Outlook on Beans
• U.S. Peanut Harvested Projected to be Record
• 2017-18 La Nina and Winter Outlook
• No End in Sight for Texas’ War Against Feral Swine
• Oklahoma Beef Council Sues Former Auditor
• CME Live Cattle Futures Halts Eight-session Skid; Hogs Down
• U.S., EU, Japan Fire Fresh Warning Shot Over Chinese Trade Abuse
• New Equity Funds Ignite Rural Renaissance and Some Renewables
• Switches in Corn, Soybeans, and Wheat Acres in the U.S.

12.12.2017

• PDF: December 12, 2017 Crop Production Report
• Texas Weather: Dry Conditions Could Worsen for Much of the State, Says Climatologist
• RFS: Rift Between “Corn State” Senators & “Oil-and-Gas State” Senators Persists
• Center for Rural Afairs Releases Farm Bill Platform
• Roberts, Stabenow Announce Witnesses for Ag Security Hearing
• Weekly Grain Movement Grains Struggle to Improve
• Latest NAFTA Talks Run Through Friday in Washington
• Producers Need Contingency Plan if U.S. Pulls Out of NAFTA, USDA’s McKinney Says
• Monsanto Offers Cash to U.S. Farmers Who Use Dicamba
• USDA Issues: “U.S. Agricultural Trade Data Update”
• Op-Ed: Agriculture’s Biggest Challenges In 2018
• Senate Panel Ok’s Top USDA lawyer, But New Questions Loom
• Texas: Bt Corn Update, and New Bt Trait Table Published
• President Trump Reaches Out To Iowa Senators, Assures Them Of His Biofuel Support

12.11.2017

• Washington Week Ahead: GOP Presses for Tax Deal, Fight Looms for USDA Nominee
• USDA Trade Data; NAFTA Perspectives from Farm State Senators
• Funds Buy Agriculture, Just in Time for a Selloff
• Rising Number of Young Leaving Jobs to Farm
• USDA Changes Voluntary Beef Grading Standards
• White House Pressures Big Corn to Meet on U.S. Biofuels Policy
• USDA Seen Raising Soybean Ending Stocks
• Harvest Outlook Shows Record Production
• Rabobank: Farmers Must Transform Their Businesses To Continue Their Operations
• AFBF President Appointed to Trade Committee
• USDA Invests in Safety, Health of Farmers
• California Regulation Requires Driver Be In Autonomous Tractor, Defeats The Purpose
• The Value of Decision Tools to Farmers and Landowners