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Grain ships carrying Ukrainian grain are seen in the Black Sea, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, near Ukrainian port of Odesa, Ukraine October 30, 2022.
Photo: Reuters/Serhii Smolientsev

Russia halts Ukraine Black Sea grain exports, Biden outraged

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News October 30, 2022

Reuters – Russia on Saturday suspended participation in a U.N.-brokered Black Sea grain deal after what it said was a major Ukrainian drone attack on its fleet in Crimea, dealing a blow to attempts to ease the global food crisis. U.S. President Joe Biden denounced the move as “purely outrageous” and said it would increase

Farmers and animal welfare advocates understand that if California wins, states with the most progressive animal welfare policies will be able to effectively set national standards...

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: U.S. Supreme Court weighs animal welfare issue

California law could have far-reaching implications for hog producers

By David Favre October 25, 2022

Should Californians be able to require higher welfare standards for farm animals that are raised in other states if products from those animals are to be sold in California? The U.S. Supreme Court is confronting this challenge in a suit now before it. Pork producers are challenging a law that California voters adopted in 2018

Gary Millershaski, a farmer and scout on the Wheat Quality Council’s Kansas wheat tour, inspects winter wheat stunted by drought near Syracuse, about 170 km west of Dodge City, on May 18, 2022. (File photo: Reuters/Julie Ingwersen)

Crops, Weather

U.S. winter wheat growers seed into dust as Plains drought persists

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen October 17, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — With seeding roughly halfway complete, the 2023 U.S. hard red winter wheat crop is already being hobbled by drought in the heart of the southern Plains, wheat experts said. Seeding plans may be scaled back in the U.S. breadbasket despite historically high prices for this time of year, reflecting rising global

News

U.S. barge backlog swells on parched Mississippi River

U.S. grain exporters aren’t booking new sales due to uncertainties

By Karl Plume October 13, 2022

Reuters – Commercial barge traffic on southern stretches of the Mississippi River was at a standstill on Oct. 4 as low water levels halted shipments of grain, fertilizer and other commodities on the critical waterway, shipping sources said. The supply chain snarl comes just as harvesting of corn and soybeans, the largest U.S. cash crops, is ramping up

Markets, News

U.S. needs to press Mexico on looming biotech corn ban, Vilsack says

By Tom Polansek October 12, 2022

Reuters – U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he continues to talk with officials in Mexico about that country’s looming ban on genetically modified (GM) corn, adding that it will be important to get clarity on the issue in 2023. A decree issued by Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in late 2020 would phase

Crops

Biden overhauling U.S. marijuana policy

Prior federal offenses to be pardoned; moves could ease U.S. business for cannabis firms

By GFM Network News, Jeff Mason October 6, 2022

Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Joe Biden took steps to overhaul U.S. policy on marijuana on Thursday by pardoning thousands of people with federal offenses for simple marijuana possession — and initiating a review of how the drug is classified. Biden said thousands of people with prior federal convictions could be denied employment, housing

File photo of a truck arriving at a Smithfield Foods pork plant at Smithfield, Va. on Oct. 17, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Tom Polansek)

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Smithfield Foods to pay US$75 million in pork price-fixing settlement

Follows similar settlement by JBS

By GFM Network News, Jonathan Stempel September 29, 2022

Reuters — Smithfield Foods has agreed to pay US$75 million to settle a lawsuit by consumers who accused the meat producer and several competitors of conspiring to inflate prices in the $20 billion-a-year U.S. pork market by limiting supply. A preliminary settlement in the antitrust case was filed on Tuesday night with the federal court

File photo of a BNSF grain train crossing the Gassman Coulee trestle near Minot, North Dakota. (Photo courtesy BNSF Railway)

Crops

U.S. railroad strike averted

Biden calls deal a 'win for America;' strike's impact would have reached up into Canada

By GFM Network News, Trevor Hunnicutt September 15, 2022

Updated | Washington | Reuters — Major U.S. railroads and unions secured a tentative deal on Thursday after 20 hours of intense talks brokered by President Joe Biden’s administration to avert a rail shutdown that could have hit food and fuel supplies across the country and beyond. Biden called the deal a “big win for

Harvesting of soybean field with combine

Markets, News

U.S. soybean harvest threatened by August weather outlook

By Mark Weinraub August 15, 2022

Reuters – Soybeans in key growing areas of the U.S. Midwest will likely face more hot and dry conditions during August, a critical growing month, that could threaten harvest yields, according to weather forecasts. The world needs a big U.S. crop to replenish global stockpiles that have been pegged at a six-year low. Russia’s invasion

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Forty billion green reasons to go green

If the U.S. budget passes, green ag is about to get a big boost

By Alan Guebert August 15, 2022

If American farmers and ranchers really want to live the oft-repeated boast that they are “the first environmentalists,” then, by golly, Joe Manchin and his Democratic Senate colleagues have the legislative vehicle to prove it. Manchin, the chief monkeywrencher of Dem dreams for the last two years, shocked everyone when he and Senate Majority Leader

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle strengthen Tuesday

Larkin to step down as Grain Growers of Canada Executive Director

Calling for bigger crops ahead of StatCan report

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