An agreement with BASF, Monsanto and DuPont puts new formulations back in fields. New dicamba formulations are allowed back in Missouri dicamba-tolerant soybean and cotton fields.… Read More »Missouri Lifts Dicamba Ban, New Restrictions in Place
The difficulty of detecting fraud in imported “organic” food means that it’s hard to know what products can be trusted, a grain industry executive told a… Read More »‘Uncertainty and Dysfunction’ Have Overtaken USDA Program for Organic Foods, Key Lawmaker Says
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (DTN) — President Donald Trump has nominated Stephen Censky, chief executive officer of the American Soybean Association, to be deputy secretary of… Read More »President Nominates Steve Censky for Deputy Agriculture Secretary
HOUSE TEES UP AG SPENDING PACKAGE: We know you’d rather be outside enjoying the sweltering 95-degree swampy weather we have on tap in Washington, but lawmakers… Read More »Morning Agriculture: House Tees Up Ag Spending Package — Perdue Dives into School Lunch Again
PRESS RELEASE | 115TH CONGRESS July 12, 2017 Opening Statement by Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin C. Peterson The Next Farm Bill: Technology & Innovation… Read More »Peterson Statement at Hearing on Technology & Innovation in Specialty Crops
A NEW CAUCUS FOR MEMBERS WHO DON’T TAKE PAC MONEY: Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) is starting a new caucus for members who have sworn off contributions from PACs… Read More »Influence: Khanna Starts PAC-free Caucus — Forbes Tate Poaches Palmer — Freedom Partners Registers to Lobby
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 | 12 p.m. CDT DTN Senior Analyst Darin Newsom will discuss 2016-2017 supply and demand estimates as well as changes made by USDA from its… Read More »Darin Newsom’s 2017-2018 Crop Update and USDA Supply/Demand Recap
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a three-part series of blog examining the funding outlook for the 2018 Farm Bill. In an effort to… Read More »The Numbers Behind the Farm Bill: What the New CBO Baseline Means for the 2018 Farm Bill
BEHIND CONAWAY’S AGRICULTURE BUDGET CRUSADE: The fate of billions of dollars for farmers and nutrition programs may have been sealed, and perhaps saved, last month behind… Read More »Morning Agriculture: Behind Conaway’s Agriculture Budget Crusade — It’s Always Sonny in Atlanta
CORNERSTONE ADDS INHOFE AIDE: Cornerstone Government Affairshas hired Anthony “Lazer” Lazarski, a senior adviser to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) on national security, veterans affairs and defense authorization and… Read More »Influence: Cornerstone Adds Inhofe Aide — Uber and Franklin Square Group Part Ways