3/10/2025 By Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor Connect with Chris: @ChrisClaytonDTN Katie Nixon, co-director of the Heartland Regional Food Business Center, told DTN about payment cuts to local and regional food programs during the National Farmers Union annual meeting in Oklahoma City. NFU members expressed alarm about contract freezes and office closures. (DTN…
The probe comes as egg prices hit record highs.By Marcia Brown | 03/07/2025 03:59 PM ESTThe eggs price is displayed on the edge of a shelf at a grocery store in Glenview, Illinois, on Feb. 10, 2025. | Nam Y. Huh/AP The Justice Department is investigating whether the nation’s largest egg producers are conspiring to…
Please read this very smart dose of tariff sanity from Rep. Chris Deluzio today via a New York Times oped. It calls out Dems to rethink how they talk about tariffs while simultaneously smacking down Trump’s crazy tariff rollercoaster and tariff mistargeting (ie. we have mainly balanced trade w/ Canada.) He summarizes the policy case…
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Hatching a Conspiracy: A BIG Investigation into Egg Prices ‘More hens, less income!’ So said the United Egg Producer economist Donald Bell in 1994. The industry has gotten more consolidated ever since. And avian flu is just the latest excuse to hike prices. Basel…
R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America Fighting for the Independent U.S. Cattle Producer Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa View and share this news release on Facebook here and X here, or view the web version here. Ranch Group Supports New Tariffs; Wants More BILLINGS, Mont., March 4, 2025…
Trinity Vandenacre @Trinitycodes Read on X 40 years ago, Only 36% of OUR US Beef market was controlled by the Big 4. Today it’s over 80%!!This caused a disaster! There were over 1.2 MILLION cattle operations in 1980, but today…. There were only about 622,000 cattle farms and ranches left in the US! Coincidence?Probably not….
Forest Service, NRCS Among Agencies Hit by Mass Firings as USDA Cuts Jobs 2/14/2025 | 4:19 PM CST By Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor Connect with Chris: @ChrisClaytonDTN Workers across several USDA agencies and offices have been fired because they were in probationary periods for their jobs. The Trump administration moved this week…
The groundwater that many Nebraskans drink is high in nitrate. Experts fear that those high nitrate levels may make Nebraska children more likely to develop certain pediatric cancers. They also believe that high nitrate poses a variety of potential health risks for adults. Photo by Ryan Soderlin for the Flatwater Free Press By Yanqi Xu…
R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America "Fighting for the Independent U.S. Cattle Producer" For Immediate Release February 13, 2025 R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa View and share this week’s update on Facebook here, on X here, or view the web version here. This week’s segment is from the archive, originally released Feb….