Tag: Agriculture

Energy and Environment

Trump announces deal to boost demand for ethanol, in boon for farmers

Josh Siegel · October 4, 2019 2:18 pm

The political arm for the National Pork Producers Council, a trade group composed of 42 affiliated state pork producer associations, failed to report recently on financial disclosures who gave it $9,706 in March

Regulatory war on gene editing could leave American agriculture in the dust

Bradley Wolter · October 2, 2019 4:00 am

The CDC found that people working in farming or fishing had the highest rate of 84 suicides per 100,000 people. (iStock photo)

US agriculture industry warns impeachment-related delay in USMCA passage puts off wins for farmers

Melissa Quinn · September 27, 2019 4:01 am

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Indiana senator says farmers not blaming Trump

Sean Higgins · September 27, 2019 3:00 am

Stink bugs move into homes in mid-late September to over winter.

Washington Secrets

Feds: Winning the war on stink bugs, new killers unleashed

Paul Bedard · September 26, 2019 6:16 pm

President Trump meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the InterContinental Barclay New York hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, in New York.

US announces ‘early agreement’ on trade deal with Japan

Sean Higgins · September 25, 2019 5:37 pm

Republicans and Democrats are more divided over the issue of climate change going into the November election, but support more wind and solar. (iStock Photo)

Energy and Environment

Democrats’ climate pitch to rural America falls short

Abby Smith · September 20, 2019 3:00 am

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2013, file photo an excavator removes trees that were bulldozed for a firebreak in the battle against Rim Fire along Dodge Ridge in the Stanislaus National Forest, near Tuolumne City, Calif. Wildlife advocates on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, plan to sue the U.S. Forest Service, attempting to block part of a recently unveiled plan for logging trees burned last year in the massive Sierra Nevada wildfire. The Center for Biological Diversity argues that federal forestry officials have ignored science showing that the California spotted owl population has soared since the Rim Fire scorched 400 square miles. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Timber industry pressing to be included in Trump trade war assistance for farmers

Sean Higgins · September 19, 2019 4:00 am

Three-week-old pigs stand in a nursery at the Paustian Enterprises farm in Walcott, Iowa, U.S., on Tuesday, April 17, 2018. China last week announced $50 billion worth of tariffs on American products including soybeans and pork in retaliation for President Trump's plan to impose duties on 1,333 Chinese products.

China excludes US soybeans and pork from tariffs

Sean Higgins · September 13, 2019 12:33 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2013 file photo, a farmer harvests a field of soybeans near Sioux Falls, S.D. The latest report from the Agriculture Department estimates South Dakota's soybean crop up 7 percent from 2013 and North Dakota's soybean crop up 37 percent.

Trade talk thaw: Chinese companies renew soybean purchases

Sean Higgins · September 12, 2019 10:36 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, an Amazon.com package is prepared for shipment by a United Parcel Service (UPS) driver in Palo Alto, Calif. States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that the Senate advanced on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Magazine - Business

‘Trying to hang on’: Trade war, ethanol rules batter American farmers

Melissa Quinn · September 6, 2019 3:00 am

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, an Amazon.com package is prepared for shipment by a United Parcel Service (UPS) driver in Palo Alto, Calif. States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that the Senate advanced on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Beltway Confidential

End the ‘robots are coming for your job’ panic

Eli Lehrer · September 4, 2019 2:21 pm