Senate immigration reform plan has agriculture backing
Having been a driving force behind the Senate’s earlier introduction of immigration reform, on Wednesday afternoon (April 17) a broad coalition of agricultural interests convened to explain and back the legislation.
Aging inland waterways infrastructure to be rehabbed?
An aging U.S. waterway infrastructure – which carries more than 60 percent of America’s grain and other commodity exports -- may be set to get a funding boost from Congress that will allow for more than a facelift.
Major farm bill shift for ASA
Amid continuing budget concerns and a need to not be caught flat-footed when Congress again takes up a new farm bill, the American Soybean Association has shifted positions on what the new legislation should contain.
Agricultural research continues funding scramble
In recent years, university agricultural research funding has too often been short. The new reality for researchers and administrators is a near-constant scramble to find ways to keep research programs afloat.
Crop insurance: Mind the minutia
The policy between the producer and an insurance company isn’t just a standard insurance policy -- it’s federal law. As such, it must be strictly complied with. Every provision has to be satisfied by the producer.
2013 markets still impacted by 2012 drought
In 2012, punishing drought was the major story for many of the nation’s farmers. The aftereffects of the parched farmland will linger for quite some time said Chad Hart, associate professor and Extension economist at Iowa State University, at the American Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting.
