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U.S. farmers expected to boost corn and wheat acreage

By Reuters March 2, 2023

U.S. farmers will plant more corn and wheat in 2023 than they did a year earlier, taking advantage of prices that remain relatively high and declining input costs, the government said Feb. 23. Corn seedings were pegged at 91 million acres and soybean seedings at 87.5 million acres, unchanged from last year, the U.S. Agriculture

File photo of a cornfield in Mexico. (Roberto Cabrera/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

Mexico opens door for GM corn in feed, industrial uses

U.S. 'disappointed' in Mexico's new decree

By Adriana Barrera, GFM Network News February 15, 2023

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico on Monday scrapped a deadline to ban genetically modified corn for animal feed and industrial use amid trade tensions with the United States — but retained plans to prohibit use of the GM grain for human consumption, as well as the herbicide glyphosate. The move, approved in a government

File photo of a Canadian Holstein dairy cow outdoors. (Diane Kuhl/iStock/Getty Images)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

New U.S. ag trade chief demands Canada broaden dairy quota access

USTR's new ag rep's eyes also on Mexico GM corn ban

By David Lawder, GFM Network News February 11, 2023

Washington | Reuters — Canada must let U.S. processors of cheese, ice cream, yogurt, milk powder and other dairy products have access to its import quotas to resolve a second U.S. dairy trade challenge, Washington’s new agricultural trade boss told Reuters. Doug McKalip, chief agricultural trade negotiator for the U.S. Trade Representative’s office, told Reuters

(Saputo Cheese USA video screengrab via YouTube)

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Saputo to consolidate U.S. cheesemaking, shut three plants

Plans include one new plant, one repurposed

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 9, 2023

The Canadian company ranked among the three biggest cheesemakers in the U.S. is preparing to consolidate five of its cheese plants in that country down to two. Montreal-based Saputo announced last Thursday it has construction underway on a new $240 million cut-and-wrap cheese plant in the Milwaukee suburb of Franklin, to be up and running

‘Collectively, the Oakland Institute estimates the three CO2 pipelines planned for the Midwest could collect $45 billion in federal guarantees over the next 12 years. Summit’s share of that juicy federal pie is an estimated $12 billion.’

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: The great carbon boondoggle, the sequel

Pigging out at the trough of the U.S. federal government

By Alan Guebert February 8, 2023

Iowa’s Bruce Rastetter has a sixth sense when it comes to making money. In 1984, according to the Des Moines Register, Rastetter “started feeding hogs on contract…and within two years, 500 head grew to 100,000.” A decade later, his Heartland Pork was the 12th largest hog farm in the U.S. Ten years after that, with

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

U.S. seeks new dispute panel over Canadian dairy imports

Panel would be second on matter since CUSMA took effect

By David Lawder, GFM Network News January 31, 2023

Washington | Reuters — The United States on Tuesday said it was seeking a second trade dispute settlement panel over Canada’s dairy import quotas, charging that Canada was still not meeting obligations to open its market to U.S. producers. The U.S. Trade Representative’s office said it was challenging Canada’s revised tariff-rate quota (TRQ) allocations that

Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: U.S. comes closer to losing corn export crown

Brazil is closer than ever to being the undisputed king of corn sales

By Karen Braun January 30, 2023

Reuters – U.S. corn exports usually begin increasing in January as soybean shipments ease, but that upward trend has yet to emerge due to poor overseas sales. China is the missing ingredient for U.S. exporters. Robust bookings from the Asian country inflated U.S. corn exports in the prior two years despite high prices, which are

News

Small U.S. meatpackers get further grants

By P.J. Huffstutter January 24, 2023

Reuters – The Biden administration has awarded another US$12 million in grants to upgrade and expand three meat and poultry processing facilities in the U.S. Midwest, as part of a broader $1 billion effort to encourage competition in a highly consolidated industry. The three projects, funded by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, include a

Livestock

Small U.S. meatpackers get boost from Biden administration

By Christopher Walljasper January 17, 2023

FUNDING Latest round of grants and loans aims to diversify meat processing after COVID disruptions

Reuters — The Biden administration is awarding an additional US$9.6 million in grants and loans to expand meat processing across the country, it announced Jan. 5, as the government tries to diversify the industry beyond four companies that have long dominated it. The effort to expand meat processing capacity comes after COVID-19 infections among workers

The most recent U.S. national security strategy characterizes China as “the only competitor with both the intent to reshape the international order…”

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Western leaders divided over relationship with China

The U.S. and EU are striking different paths when it comes to this world power

By Stefan Wolff January 11, 2023

European Council president Charles Michel headed to Beijing on Dec. 1, the latest in a procession of western leaders to seek an audience with Xi Jinping, in a year when the Chinese president has cemented his position as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. Xi met more than 20 heads of government earlier

Daily Network News

‘Significant’ Canadian GDP slide expected in 2026, FCC says

Gene edited, PRRS resistant pig approved in Canada

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end week higher

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