Policy

Some egg-citing news as we enter spring: A bipartisan bill is on the table to lower egg prices for consumers. Tell us more: The legislation, as proposed by the House, would cut the red tape that forces farmers to dispose of millions of eggs each year. Smashing eggs is the law: Eggs are required to be refrigerated within 36 hours of being laid.

U.S. pig and poultry processing speed could get a whole lot faster. Breaking barriers: The Trump administration announced plans to speed up poultry and hog slaughter permanently. The USDA will start a process that allows for faster processing speeds. Under the new rule, poultry plants with a waiver can process up to 175 birds per minute, compared to 140.

A new bill in both the House and Senate has Congresspeople working across the aisle to bring the ag supply chain back home. The Securing...

It's been awhile .... since we mentioned WOTUS.  The Trump administration thought it was time for a WOTUS (Waters of the United States)...

ICYMI, tariffs have taken a front row seat in the news lately. Earlier this week, we covered President Trump’s “ever-evolving” tariffs....

“If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.” —  But agriculture isn’t dodging DOGE—and the balls being thrown keep compounding. The...

A new deal with the Panama Canal could bridge troubled waters in exports.  The rundown:  A Hong Kong conglomerate is  selling its stake...

And the theme of the news this week is once again…  .  New news on tariffs, eh?!   This time, pertaining directly to our neighbors to the...

have hit Canada, China, and Mexico with a wave of reciprocal tariffs set to hit all U.S. trading partners on April 2. Rewind:  Trump...

Rollins was rollin’ with her homies (farmers) at Commodity Classic in Denver this week. Relief is on the way, dear! *insert Mrs....

Operation Return to Sender is yielding some unexpected  fan mail from the United Farm Workers.  The  organization , plus five San Joaquin...

A  new proposal  from The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative suggests hefty fees for Chinese cargo ships doing business at American...

The USDA isn’t   around with bird flu any longer. On Thursday, Secretary of Ag Brooke Rollins announced the USDA’s  $1B plan  to combat...

Free-range chicken feed may get supercharged with  biochar  as an antidote for the  Campylobacter  bacteria, thanks to new findings from...

The European Commission could clear a rocky patch for farmers in future policy-making. The rundown:  The ruling body of the EU released a...

Bayer is throwing its weight behind legislation that would block failure to warn lawsuits that claim Roundup causes cancer.  The...

The chickens have come home to roost—which seems common when USDA rule-making is met with opposition. Republican Reps. Steve Womack...

Un-bee-lieveable  news is in from American commercial beekeepers. The U.S. Beekeeping Survey shows average recent losses are greater than...

College aid rules could soon stop treating tractors like trust funds. The rundown:  Legislators reintroduced a set of bills that would ...

Net farm income (NFI) is  projected  to go  allllll the way up  this year. After a  decline  in NFI in 2023, and a forecasted decline in...