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The Bureau of Customs has slapped smuggling charges against importers and brokers of smuggled used clothes, cigarettes, and agricultural products that arrived at a Manila port. BOC's Action Team Against Smugglers or BATAS filed smuggling cases last Friday against JJTS International Trading, Gandar International Import and Export Trading, Proline Logistics Phils.
Orion Samuelson and Steve Bridge offer reports from China, a look at new dairy technology and share insight on key issues for agriculture Orion Samuelson and Steve Bridge open with a look at China and the way that country has changed over time; including that country's need for commodities. Steve talks with former Secretary of Agriculture John Block about the changes he's seen.
Hard red spring wheat flows from a combine driven by Ben Tinkham to a grain cart driven by Reed Tinkham at Tinkham Farms near Fisher, Minn., Tuesday. Ben and Reed Tinkham farm with Brian Tinkham and were on the second day of wheat harvest.
CATTLE RAISERS REFUTE CONCERNS ON CATTLE FEVER TICK SPRAY BOXES Aug. 2, 2018 Source: Texas and Southwest Cattle Raisers Assn news release Robert McKnight, Jr., president of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association issued the following statement in response to an announcement that the Texas Department of Agriculture is shutting down the use of cattle spray boxes to treat cattle fever ticks: "Our foremost priority is the health of our cattle, and we support the experts at the Texas Animal Health Commission and USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in their mission to protect animal health and productivity.
SENTE VOTES TO BEGIN FARM BILL CONFERENCE, NAMES CONFEREES Aug. 2, 2018 Source: U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry news release U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., are pleased the Senate has voted to move forward with the 2018 Farm Bill Conference Committee. The Senators also applauded the announcement of the Senators who will serve on the 2018 Farm Bill Conference Committee.
Here's a round-up of some of the complaints about Donald Trump's tariffs heard on Capitol Hill in recent weeks This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Doug Palmer on politico.com on August 1, 2018.
According to federal court documents filed on July 31, 2018, Ford Motor Credit Company is suing Reagor-Dykes dealerships, Bart Reagor and Rick Dykes. Ford says the dealerships have an outstanding balance of more than $116 million, and currently more than $41 million is due now.
The Commodity Credit Corporation is a government-owned and operated bank first created to support farm income and prices during the Great Depression. Organized under the umbrella of the USDA, the CCC Charter Act was enacted by Congress as a financing backstop to help farmers produce and market their commodities through loans, purchases and payments and to develop new domestic and foreign markets.
George Wallace is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News . He has ranched and farmed in the West all his life.
Some salads and wraps at Kroger, Trader Joe's and Walgreen's are being recalled for possible Cyclospora contamination, the same issue that led to recall of some salads at McDonald's earlier this week. Salads, wraps from Trader Joe's, Kroger and Walgreen's may be contaminated with intestinal parasite Some salads and wraps at Kroger, Trader Joe's and Walgreen's are being recalled for possible Cyclospora contamination, the same issue that led to recall of some salads at McDonald's earlier this week.
On Monday, a public health alert issued by the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service advised certain beef, pork and poultry salad and wrap products might be contaminated with cyclospora. The products were sold by grocery stores including Kroger, Trader Joe's and Walgreens.
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Southwestern Bartholomew Water Co. is one of three Indiana utilities that will receive funds through a nationwide effort to upgrade rural water infrastructure.
This Sunday, July 29, 2018, photo provided by Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner shows damage from a storm just after it hit the area near Brush, Colo. People on the plains of northeastern Colorado were cleaning up Monday from a powerful storm that swept through the state, ripping off roofs, flipping trucks and damaging crops.
Agriculture ministers are not used to working in the hot glare of media attention, but that was before President Trump and his fellow world leaders put farmers and food at the center of the fight over the future of the world trading system. Mr. Trump last week pledged $12 billion in aid to tariff-hit U.S. farmers while declaring he had "just opened up Europe" for products.
These non-browning mushrooms, which were gene-edited, need no special approval by the USDA in the United States, but if they were sent to European Union countries, they'd face the same regulations as GMOs. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is calling out a recent ruling in the European Union that puts products from new "gene editing" methods such as CRISPR in the same category of all techniques for genetically modified organisms.
The Senate reconvenes today at 3:00 pm to consider the nomination of Britt Grant to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Prior to her nomination to the Eleventh Circuit, Grant served as solicitor general of Georgia and on the Supreme Court of Georgia.
SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE: The House has passed the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act , sponsored by Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, to require the Federal Communications Commission to study the possibility of creating a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system with an easy to remember phone number. Stewart said the bill was intended to "streamline and to provide easy access to potentially lifesaving resources by designating a new and very simple national three-digit dialing number, very similar to 911, for national suicide prevention and mental health crisis."
These microloans will be especially helpful to beginning or underserved farmers, U.S. veterans looking for a career in farming, and those who have small and mid-sized farming operations. Microloans have helped farmers with operating costs, such as feed, fertilizer, tools, fencing, equipment, and living expenses since 2013.
The top executive of engine maker Cummins has one description for the tariffs the United States has imposed on steel, aluminum and other imports. "Let's be clear: a tariff is a tax, plain and simple," CEO Tom Linebarger wrote in an opinion piece published in The New York Times Wednesday.