President Donald Trump has been labeled – by friends and foes alike – as a marketing and branding wizard. He hasn’t lost that touch moving into the public sector from the business world with his unveiling of the administration’s FY 2019 “An American Budget” proposal today, a title keeping with the “American First” name of his policy strategy that came from his “Make America Great Again” campaign theme. The budget contains the president’s overall infrastructure initiative, which includes several USDA-related programs and investments such as the following:
Rural Formula Funds - $50 billion for rural infrastructure investment, primarily broadband internet Existing Credit Pr...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
