Agricultural news, updates and trends from The Gazette.
A $22.5 million funding request for modernizing the locks and dams on the Mississippi River is a “huge win” for Iowa and the Midwest because moving commodities on the river is critical to the agriculture export economy “and is an economic engine for the entire region.”
But more timely precipitation still needed, experts say, before drought conditions can be eliminated.
U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack announced plans Friday to launch programs to increase competition in the meat processing industry and resiliency in the food supply chain.
Spotty rains help some, but miss others
The Biden administration plans to issue a new rule to protect the rights of farmers who raise cows, chickens and hogs against the country's largest meat processors as part of a plan to encourage more competition in the agriculture sector.
Des Moines has become an extreme example of the conflict over clean water between agriculture and cities in farm states with minimal regulation.
Hog prices have dropped after China reported more than 98 percent of its herds are back to its pre-swine flu level.
In February 2017, weeks after President Trump selected Sonny Perdue to be U.S. agriculture secretary, Perdue’s company bought a small grain plant in South Carolina from ADM.
Farmers reported many crops benefited from much-needed rain but more moisture is needed, especially in the northern two-thirds of the state. At the same time, other parts of the state got too much rain.
Waivers had surged under former Republican President Donald Trump, provoking a backlash from biofuel advocates who argued Congress only intended the exemptions to be short-term relief.
An effort in Oregon follows bills passed earlier this year in Washington and Colorado to grant overtime pay to farmworkers.
Iowa’s corn condition rated 63 percent as good to excellent —14 percentage points below the week before. Soybean condition rated 61 percent as good to excellent — 12 points worse than last week.
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