If the Senate had taken up the farm bill as it had originally planned, then the farm bill would be marked up in Ag Committee by now. Indeed, the plan was to have a farm bill draft in Committee by the Easter Recess, but that didn't happen. The latest plan is to have the farm bill through the Senate Ag Committee and to the floor in April and May, and through the House Ag Committee and to the floor in May and June.Of course, the House-approved Budget Resolution has reconciliation instructions for the Ag Committee that must be reported out by 27 April, calling for the following deficit reduction targets:
FY 2012-13: $8.2 billion FY 2012-17: $19.7 billion FY 2012-22: $33.2 billion
While not the farm bill per se, this reconciliation langu...
What You Need to Know Today: Declining crop conditions ratings and shaky results from the Pro Farmer crop tour sent grains sharply higher on Tuesday. The Pro Farmer tour in Ohio pegged the state yield at 180.18 BPA, about 5.5 BPA below the tour’s 2025 estimate. Similarly, the Pro Farmer...
Based on a Depression-era statute, President Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion of exports to the U.S., or about 5.2 percent of the $383 billion worth of goods the U.S. imported from Canada in 2025, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Of that total, about $39.3 billion was agricu...
Key Takeaways: Brazil’s growing role in global agriculture is accompanied by a major vulnerability: the country imports approximately 88 percent of its fertilizer needs. High natural gas costs and development challenges have limited domestic nitrogen and potash production despite Brazil&...
