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Hearing. And topics are farm bill, and trade relations with china and the status of the disaster aid programs. This is about 2 15. This joint hearing of the subcommittees on the general farm commodities and Risk Management and livestock and foreign agriculture in order to review the title of Disaster Relief will come to order. Thank you. And thank you for coming to the joint committee on farm commodities and risk committees and farm agriculture. I am pleased to be joined by my chair mr. Acosta a...

Minutes. Good morning. I call this meeting in the Senate Committee on agriculture forestry to order. The ambassador doud, mckinney and johansen we are happy to have you back again for the committee to discuss the need for certainty and our Global Agriculture markets. International trade policies and their impacts on the United States agricultural economy. Has been a topic of great interest over the last few years. And more particularly the last few months. In fact, it is the second time in the l...

This hearing of the Senate Agriculture committee. Its about an hour and 45 minutes. Morning. I call this meeting of the Senate Committee on agriculture under order. We are happy to have you back here again before the committee to discuss the need for certainty in our Global Agriculture markets. International trade policies and their impacts on the United States agriculture economy has been a topic of great interest over the last few years and more particularly the last few months. In fact, this ...

Im jim sciutto in washington where talks are still under way, trying to avoid a trade war that is growing bigger and more costly than ever, including for you. U. S. And chinese negotiators going head to head just hours after President Trump sharply increased tariffs on some 200 billion worth of chinese exports. Those tariffs are aeffectively a tax on you. You pay those costs. By sharply, i mean tariffs that stood at 10 yesterday now 25 . Thats a really big deal. Again, this morning, the presiden...

Farms in DuPage County received $14,198,080 in taxpayer-funded subsidies in 2021, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Former Iowa Ag Secretary and Trump administration USDA leader Bill Northey has died, leaving behind numerous family and friends and a legacy of farm policy leadership. He was 64.

Former President Donald Trump is promising to renew his attack on the U.S. trade deficit should he win a second term by imposing an across-the-board tariff on imports, a prospect that is alarming to farm groups still smarting from his past trade wars.

Bipartisan recommendations issued by a special House committee call for raising tariffs on Chinese exports and taking steps to protect U.S. farmers from the trade retaliation that would likely result.

John Hoeven, the top Republican on the Senate Agriculture Appropriations subcommittee, joined Agri-Pulse Newsmakers this week to talk about some of the different funding areas he sees necessary for the upcoming farm bill.

University research shows ad hoc payments result in farmers holding more grain in storage. Published by the Un...