Ag Policy
Terry Wolters, NPPC president, discusses the pork industry’s top priorities on AgriTalk this week.
USDA unveiled additional plans to help boost domestic fertilizer production including $500 million in grants and reduce the risk of a series of black swans that have flown into the fertilizer market the past two years.
The National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health released on Tuesday will cover everything from a congressional push for $15 per hour minimum wage to research in soil management impacts on human health.
President Richard Nixon hosted the last White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health in 1969. That confab led to expansions of the food stamp program, the school lunch program and WIC.
Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a proposal to ban “factory farming” in a referendum on whether the wealthy country’s strict animal welfare laws need to be tightened yet further.
The House of Representatives on March 18 passed H.R. 1603, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act by a 247-174 vote.
All agriculture haulers could be exempted from using electronic logging devices (ELD) if the latest version of the Agricultural Business Electronic Logging Device Exemption Act of 2018 advances through Congress.
The Modernizing Agricultural Transportation Act has been introduced in the House of Representatives and is yet another legislative proposal that offers fixes for livestock haulers regarding hours of service rules.
The Transporting Livestock Across America Safely Act has been reintroduced by a bipartisan group of Senators and could provide some fixes to hours of service requirements for livestock haulers.
As backlogs at U.S. ports and climbing shipping rates plague the supply chain, new data shows container shipping rates between the U.S and China are dropping by more than 50% in just a month.
Canines serve as a valuable asset in protecting the U.S. agriculture industry, helping detect foreign animal diseases and other invasive species and pests from entering the border.
In early April, President Biden—ahead of EPA—formally announced the suspension of a federal rule that prohibits the sale of E15 blended biofuels during summer months in hopes of alleviating rising pump prices.
According to a senior administration official, the presidents are still planning to meet but there’s “too much work to do” in too short of a time period to flesh out a deal with China.
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has said that he will not immediately act to remove the Phase 1 trade agreement, which President Donald Trump inked with China, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The dollars tagged for such purposes are part of the Build Back Better program, the Biden administration’s COVID-19 relief plan.
Farm-state lawmakers will eventually add billions to the aid package, but Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) agrees it could take until a later omnibus spending measure to be approved.
With Ukraine and Russia at war in the midst of a world moving away from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a lot to consider in the 2023 Farm Bill. Industry experts weighed-in to share their predictions.
Have the Pacific Coast port bottleneck issues been resolved, or moved somewhere else? The East Coast may now be carrying the burden.
Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, offers further analysis on market trends and movements and what they mean to the farm industry.
This month’s 2019/20 U.S. corn outlook is for larger production and beginning stocks, greater feed and residual use, lower food, seed, and industrial (FSI) use, and increased ending stocks.
President-Elect Joe Biden nominated Michael Regan, North Carolina’s top environmental regulator, as the next administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Here’s the pork industry response.
Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork processor, said on Monday it paused all federal campaign contributions until more facts are known about last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol.
U.S. Representatives reintroduced legislation to create a workforce solution for U.S. agriculture by providing stability, predictability and fairness to one of the most important sectors of our economy.
Frontline meat workers deserve immediate access to vaccines, the Meat Institute says, and urges Biden’s administration not to create inflexible standards that could force facilities to decrease capacity utilization.
Expanding market access to Vietnam, visa reform to address a livestock agriculture labor shortage and foreign animal disease prevention are the focus of NPPC’s Legislative Action Conference this week.
On May 19, a federal judge denied Seaboard Foods’ motion to delay a return to pork line speed limits and three other processors’ requests for reinstatement of waivers.
A Nebraska bill has been delayed that would have extended COVID-19 protections for meatpacking workers for another year.
USDA will not seek to overturn a court ruling ordering pork packing plants to operate at slower line speeds, USDA said in a constituent update.
As part of #PORKWeek21, lawmakers joined AgriTalk to discuss the USDA’s recent decision not to appeal a decision to remove the provision allowing for faster line speeds at pork processing plants.
Competitive wages. Growing job opportunities. Still, the U.S. pork industry continues to face a perilous labor shortage – one that will require access to more foreign-born workers to remain sustainable, NPPC reports.