While USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack charged this week that the EU threatens global food security with its proposed opt-out policy regarding GM crop imports, the Obama administration itself is damaging that progress through its failure to act in one state's GMO labeling case.
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack charged this week that the EU threatens global food security with its proposed policy allowing member states to opt out of importing otherwise safe GM crops. The otherwise sound rationale is that damaging technological progress in agriculture most harms the world's poor. However, the Obama administration itself is damaging that progress through its failure to act in the Vermont GMO labeling case. With the simple writ of executive action, the p...
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...
