The House budget resolution has no specific instructions in the reconciliation package regarding spending cuts to farm and nutrition programs nor suggested reforms to achieve deficit reduction.
The House Budget Committee will consider the FY 2018 budget resolution tomorrow, which it indicated gives reconciliation instructions to 11 House committees with a target of at least $203 billion in mandatory savings and reforms, a sum very much in keeping with expectations. That total is equal to a 1 percent, across-the-board cut to federal mandatory spending programs.As previously noted (see Ag Perspectives, 10 July), a 1 percent reduction to farm program spending would be the equivalent of $600 million over the next 10 years. The total proposed...
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...
