The House passed the scaled back version of the President’s Build Back Better reconciliation bill; the original package was $3.5 trillion, what got through the House on a 220-213 mostly party-line vote was $1.75 trillion. One Democrat, Representative Jared Golding of Maine, was the only member to cross party lines; he voted against it. The House vote was delayed waiting on a budget score from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), requested by a group of moderate Democrats as we noted on 8 November). The bill has $81.564 billion in ag spending over the next five years; and $81.746 over the next 10 years.
Like the ag programs, most of the spending is front loaded. Over 10 years CBO forecast the bill would increase the deficit...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
