The House Agriculture Committee sent its Budget Views and Estimates letter to the House Budget Committee last month. This letter outlines the Agriculture Committee’s plans for the farm bill (and/or other legislation under its jurisdiction) and provides the Committee’s arguments for the budget totals that the Budget Committee assigns the legislative committees in the annual federal budget resolution. The letter, signed by Chairman Glenn Thompson (R-Pennsylvania) and Ranking Member David Scott (D-Georgia) states, We believe the 2023 Farm Bill can be a vehicle that aids you in this process through strategic investments in critical programs that will alleviate the need for costly and inefficient emergency ad hoc spending and...
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...
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