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Category Archives: Agriculture News
Ag Export Values Expected To Drop This Year
The value of U.S. agricultural exports in fiscal year 2025 is expected to drop to the lowest level in five years. USDA says shipments this year are projected to be valued at $170.5 billion, up from the $170 billion in the November 2024 outlook. That would still be the lowest level since 2020. For example,…… MORE
The Ag Center Commodity Report for Thursday, February 27
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Prop 12 Called a Threat to All of American Agriculture
Lori Stevermer, president of the National Pork Producers Council, testified before the U.S. Senate Ag Committee on the state of the U.S. agricultural economy. Stevermer highlighted the top pork industry issue, California’s Prop 12, a state regulation posing an “existential threat” to all of U.S. agriculture. “We must fix the problems caused by Prop 12,…… MORE
Bipartisan Bill Would Crack Down on Foreign Purchases of Farmland
Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the Farmland Security Act of 2025 to help safeguard rural communities and protect American farmland from being secretly bought by foreign investors. The bipartisan legislation will build on current law to ensure that all foreign investors, including “shell companies” who buy American agricultural land, report their…… MORE
USDA Secretary Has Plan To Lower Egg Prices
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins unveils a $1 billion-dollar comprehensive strategy to curb highly pathogenic avian influenza. The goal is to protect the U.S. poultry industry, and lower egg prices. According to USDA the five-pronged strategy includes an additional $500 million for biosecurity measures, $400 million in financial relief for affected farmers, and $100…… MORE
The Ag Center Commodity Report for Tuesday, February 25
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Feds Announce First Water Allocation for 2025
The Bureau of Reclamation’s initial allocation for California farmers on the west side of the Central Valley south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta is more than twice what the initial allocation was in 2024, a year with similar hydrology, according to a news release. In addition, the Bureau of Reclamation says the Trump administration is…… MORE
USDA Will Release Millions of Frozen Farmer Funds
The Ag Department recently announced it will release approximately $20 million in funding for previously approved contracts that had been frozen by the Trump administration’s push to overhaul the federal government according to the agency. The sum represents a tiny sliver of program funding the USDA suspended after the White House’s broad freeze of federal loans and…… MORE
The Ag Center Commodity Report for Thursday, February 20
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