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Derecho Aid Gets Blown Away from House Relief Bill – DTN Mar 4, 2021
House Democratic leaders stripped a provision from the latest aid package that would have helped farmers suffering from crop losses — including losses due to high winds or derechos — […]
Senate Ag Committee Wants to Get to Work – DTN Feb 3, 2021
Incoming Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow said Thursday that the confirmation hearing for Tom Vilsack, President Biden’s nominee for Agriculture secretary, scheduled for Tuesday, may depend on Senate leaders […]
Commodity Market Optimism Falls with Spread of Chinese Coronavirus – DTN Jan 28, 2020
Optimism has fallen out of the commodity and stock markets as the number of infections rise from the coronavirus in China, which has spread to the U.S., Canada and now […]
Ag Trade: Senate Passes USMCA – DTN Jan 17, 2020
The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted 89-10 for final passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), sending the trade agreement to President Donald Trump to sign into law. Much as […]
Trade Aid: Democrats Charge USDA of “Picking Winners and Losers” – DTN Nov 15, 2019
A group of Senate Democrats released a report Tuesday on the Trump administration’s agricultural trade aid program, charging USDA “is picking winners and losers in their attempt to aid farmers […]
Immigration Issues: Sorting Out Who’s Supported Walls In The Past – DTN Jan 9, 2019
Leading into President Donald Trump’s speech Tuesday night, Sen. Charles Grassley made the argument that most Democrats had supported similar border-wall funding under former President George W. Bush and Barack […]
Section 199 Tax Mess Getting Untangled, But Also Held Hostage Mar 14, 2018
It looks like Congress has a possible fix to the Section 199A cooperative deduction in the recently passed tax bill. However, the fix is being stalled in the Senate. The […]
