Each of the House and Senate bills provides its own proposed program for dairy producers' margin insurance.
As we reported in a brief update yesterday, the farm bill conference is stalled over foreign aid language and dairy. Also as we have noted for the past two years, while the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the high profile contentious issue, dairy just may be the make or break item. That appears to be where we are now. Representative Collin Peterson (D-Minnesota), ranking member on the House Agriculture Committee, has indicated he is unlikely to whip votes for a farm bill conference report that does not include supply control. Senator Pat Leahy (D-Vermont) has said he would work to defeat a bill that did not incl...
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...
