Remembering the Farmer
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Happy Fourth of July! Americas Farm Report will be taking the next few days off for the July Fourth holiday. We’ll see you on Monday. Sincerely, Richard Kemp Continue reading
Brazil’s JBS wins a quarter of Trump-tariff contracts for pork A Brazilian-owned meat processing company undercut its competition by more than $1 per pound to win nearly $78 million in pork contracts through a federal program launched to help American farmers offset the impact of the ongoing trade war. As… Continue reading
Food access in D.C.: Q&A with Ashanté Reese In her new book, “Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.,” Ashanté M. Reese, an assistant professor of anthropology at Spelman College, uses Deanwood, a predominately black neighborhood in D.C., as a lens to examine the broader obstacles… Continue reading
Farmers will be ‘great beneficiary’ as U.S.-China talks resume, says Trump American farmers may benefit doubly during efforts to end the Sino-U.S. trade war, suggested President Trump over the weekend. They will get billions of dollars in payments intended to mitigate the impact of the trade war on the agricultural… Continue reading
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Judge allows DOJ to intervene in poultry price-fixing case U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin in Chicago granted the Department of Justice’s request to stay discovery in a high-profile case that alleges collusion in the poultry industry. Durkin halted discovery in the case for three months, half the time DOJ had… Continue reading
Profits won’t sprout from shower of prevented-planting payments Some growers may collect three or even four payments on land where they were unable to plant a crop this spring due to persistent rain and flooding, but no one is going to get rich off of it, said Agriculture Secretary Sonny… Continue reading
Put USDA in charge of gene-edited livestock, says hog industry The U.S. hog industry is going to the White House in its campaign for the USDA to supplant FDA as the federal regulator of gene-edited food animals, leaders said on Tuesday. House passes spending bill, including amendment to delay hog-slaughter… Continue reading
Supreme Court rules SNAP sales data are confidential A solid majority of the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that SNAP sales data at the store level are confidential and outside of the reach of public-records laws. The Argus Leader newspaper fought for access to the information for eight years on… Continue reading