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The Food and Drug Administration performs the critical task of providing consumers with clear nutritional information by enforcing labeling standards. Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin says she’s worked for years with farmers and dairy processors to eliminate the misuse of dairy terms in labeling imitation dairy products. She says the FDA isn’t clearing up the problem…tape […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is naming former Sen. David Perdue of Georgia to be his ambassador to China. Trump says that as a former CEO, Perdue will bring “valuable expertise” to the U.S. relationship with China. Perdue pushed Trump’s debunked lies about electoral fraud during his failed bid for Georgia governor. Economic tensions are sure to be a big part of the U.S.-China picture for the new administration. Trump has threatened to impose sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China as soon as he takes office as part of his effort to crack down on illegal immigration and drugs.

Climatologist Corey Davis, what do you know? We finally, we broke a snow drought in some spots, didn’t we? “That’s right. Mike, you know, some folks woke up on Tuesday morning to some unexpected snow on the ground. And one of the reasons that this system was such a surprise is that if it had […]

With a new administration promising the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, many are anxious about what that could mean for the ag industry, where it’s estimated that 40 percent of their workforce is undocumented. Pam Lewison, Ag Director at the Washington Policy Center, says there are ways to address both immigration and the need for […]

A Texas federal court halted the implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act’s beneficial ownership reporting requirements that included America’s farmers, ranchers, and agribusinesses. The court held the CTA as likely unconstitutional, so it issued a preliminary injunction barring the government from enforcing the Act and its reporting requirements against anyone. Before the ruling, small businesses […]

A new collaborative study from Envu and the United States Geological Survey shows the impact of annual grass invasion on soil carbon loss in U.S. rangelands. Justin Hossfeld, a sixth-generation rancher from Wyoming, is the national sales manager for Envu Range & Pasture. “What they found was during this very exhaustive study that when an […]

Revised estimates in the 2024 Farm Income Forecast still show agriculture taking a big financial hit this year. Danny Munch, an economist at the American Farm Bureau Federation, says the slight adjustment still indicates farmers are struggling. “In September, net farm income was expected to decline 4.4 percent to $140 billion across the farm economy, […]

The USDA released new farm income forecast numbers, and while they’re not drastically different from previous reports this year, they seem to take on more meaning the closer we get to the end of the calendar year. Carrie Litkowski is a senior economist with USDA Economic Research Service, and says farm income is on the […]

Wisconsin Congressman Derrick Van Orden (R) doesn’t pull any punches about the possibility of a new farm bill coming out of the lame-duck session of Congress. “Absolutely not. You’re not going to see a farm bill at the end of the year, and you can thank Senator Stabenow for that. She was two years late […]

The USDA is out now with its new ag trade forecast for the 2025 fiscal year. “It’s kind of a continuation of some of the short term trends we’ve been seeing over the last couple years.” USDA chief economist Seth Meyer’s description of the new forecast, which is projecting 2025 US ag exports at $170 […]