Individual Action An anti-animal agriculture group falsely calling itself Americans For Family Farmers is promoting legislation entitled Exposing Agricultural Trade Suppression Act (EATS Act). While ultimately focused on banning concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO’s) and stopping state-level ag-gag laws, the proposal follows the most controversial component of the anti-abortion law recently enacted in Texas. It would “grant a private right of action” against state or local regulations, eliminating the need to establish standing and throwing all manner of agricultural laws into turmoil. AMR for Everyone To address the problem of anti-microbial resistance (AMR), EU officials have proposed three restrictions on th...
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...
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