The House passed the farm-only bill yesterday as Gary Blumenthal reported. It needed 218 votes to pass, but the Speaker's chair gaveled the vote closed to declare the bill passed with 216 votes and 208 votes opposed. No Democrats voted for the bill, 12 Republicans voted against it and six Republicans did not vote. The other committee chairmen that voted against the bill originally all voted for it this time.This bill has essentially the language that received the final vote without passing in June, including the changes to the dairy title offered by Representative Robert Goodlatte (R-Virginia), but without any nutrition provisions. The bill also included a change of the permanent law provision – i.e. the reversion of farm law to...
What You Need to Know Today: U.S. weather is getting more attention this week as conditions vary greatly across the western, central, and eastern corn belts, with the different regions battling dryness and too much rain simultaneously. The ProFarmer Crop Tour began today in Indiana and Nebrask...
Unlike the 2022 fertilizer shock, today’s disruption is rooted less in rerouted trade flows and more in damaged production capacity, raw material constraints and uncertain recovery timelines. That makes this a longer-duration risk for U.S. agricultural producers and retailers who must sec...
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