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LINCOLN, NE — The Nebraska Farm Bureau and the FBI’s Omaha Field Office partnered to encourage ranchers and farmers to be aware of agriculture threats with a rise in technology during a Agriculture Threats Symposium At the two-day event, FBI Omaha Special Agent in Charge Gene Kowel said four main threats face the agriculture sector. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – If President Joe Biden and House Republicans can’t agree to lift the debt ceiling, senior citizens and soldiers could be among the first to feel the impact. The U.S. Treasury Department says if it can’t borrow more money, it won’t be able to pay the nation’s bills as soon as June 1. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – While political tensions between the U.S. and China have increased these past months, it hasn’t affected U.S. agricultural trade to a great degree. Recent sales of U.S. corn and sorghum followed up a record year of China beef exports and China has also been back in the soybean export market. According to […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to continue blocking Paraguay from importing beef to the U.S. in response to USDA releasing a proposed rule that would grant access to Paraguayan beef imports. “USDA’s proposed rule to allow Paraguayan beef imports […]
PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota’s statutory deadlines to submit petitions to initiate new state laws and amendments to the state constitution both violate the U.S. Constitution, according to the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. SD Voice, a ballot-measure committee headed by Cory Heidelberger, had challenged the state laws requiring citizen-initiated petitions be filed one […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Brazil’s beef exports to China have halted today after a case of mad cow disease was confirmed in the northern state of Para, the country’s agriculture and livestock ministry said on Wednesday. According to Minister Carlos Favaro, “All measures are being taken at each state of the investigation and the matter is […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The road to mandatory labeling of domestic beef is long and winding with more than one dead end. A new Congress is always another opportunity to bring legislation that is popular out in the country and with consumers but not so much with Washington lawmakers where a needed majority has failed to […]
WASHINTON, D.C. – Ranchers and many others in beef production are contemptuous of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and what they claim is the organization’s unfair policies to U.S. industries and trade. The Biden Administration, through the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), has issued a scathing rebuke of the World Trade Organization’s […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. reached a major agreement with Japan that will allow American producers to meet Japan’s growing demand for high-quality U.S. beef with the signing of a new agreement to revise the beef safeguard mechanism under the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement (USJTA). Japan raised its “safeguard” duty on U.S. beef to 38.5% from […]
SIOUX FALLS, SD – Enjoy what moisture has been received recently in the form of snow, because it looks to be a warm, dry spring. The climate driver La Nina is hanging around and will have an impact into late this year, according to Dennis Todey, head of the Midwest Climate Hub. He and other […]