Click here to listen to Brandon's Agribusiness Report on Senator Stabenow's view of the House farm bill.It was "not a real farm bill," and "an insult to rural America."That's how Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow referred to the final House farm bill,...
Click here to listen to part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, or part 5 of the 5-part World of Agriculture series on Canada's perspective of MCOOL.In 2008, Canada filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization over USDA's mandatory country-of-origin labeling or MCOOL...
Listen to Brandon's World of Agriculture report on Ukraine's switch to corn acres from wheat by clicking here.Ukraine's government has seen a world of potential through the seaports of Odessa. As the export market beckons, U.S. companies like Pioneer Hybrids have...
Listen to Ken's Money Matters report about adjusting USDA's ending corn stocks numbers by clicking here.It is a long way to harvest in the Midwest, and corn demand is not slowing down.USDA reports fewer bushels of corn on hand in the United States than in any other...
Listen to Ken's report on the Stock and Acreage reports by clicking here.USDA's June 28 Stocks and Acreage reports shocked the grain trade.In the longest wet spell since 1993, USDA said farmers planted 97.4 million acres of corn, almost 100 thousand acres more than...
Listen to part 1 of our World of Agriculture series on TTIP by clicking here.Listen to part 2 of our World of Agriculture series on TTIP by clicking here.If the proposed trade deal between the United States and the European Union is going to involve agricultural...
Historically the Internal Revenue Service has held that payments from the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) are only subject to self-employment tax if the person signing is engaged in what it termed the "trade of business" of farming.In 2003, the IRS changed its...
Democrat and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warned House Republican leaders that there will be no more farm bill extensions. Last week?s House farm bill fiasco saw the bill lose 195 to 234; the first defeat for a farm bill since the farm programs was created in...
There is no approved biotech trait in wheat, which is the only major grain that has not been genetically altered. However, Monsanto developed Round Up Ready wheat and received FDA food safety certification, but faced too much resistance to bring it to market. Their...
For the first time, a farm bill has failed on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.The bill's failure was also worst fears of farm-state Republicans; their own party pushed so far on cutting nutrition benefits that House Democrats voted against the measure...
