Agri-pulse Daily Voice

President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak today at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s convention in Nashville, where he’ll be greeted with a crowd that heard pro-trade messages from multiple stakeholders on Sunday.

Winter weather has been especially harsh in several states across the plains, bringing about concerns over the area’s winter wheat crop.

A dairy trade association believes a product calling itself yogurt is misleading consumers about the nutritional benefits of its almond-based alternative.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is looking for more action to curb trucking regulations the group says present animal welfare concerns.

The 2017 Census of Agriculture has been sent to farmers all across the country. Greg Thessen of the National Ag Statistics Service office in Des Moines, Iowa, says the Census is very important to each and every producer.

The story that will perhaps have the longest impact on farm policy came late in 2017 with Congress approved its tax reform bill that included many provisions critical to agriculture.

A number of stories surrounding the Renewable Fuel Standard made headlines in 2017.

Farm groups were happy to see the Trump administration direct the Environmental Protection Agency to start over with a new regulation to define a Water of the United States.

Perhaps no story was bigger this year than President Donald Trump’s selection of former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to be the nation’s 31st secretary of agriculture.

The ag policy community is preparing to discuss, pass, and implement the upcoming farm bill, and that includes the crop insurance industry.

Plans to give assistance to cotton producers rolled out earlier this week might have a hard time being enacted into policy before the end of the year.

The GOP tax reform bill is one step away from being sent to President Donald Trump for his signature.

The Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for conservation grants in focus areas that could be a sign of things to come in the farm bill.

Negotiations have come to a close on a tax reform proposal, leaving House and Senate final passage as the only steps before the bill goes to President Trump’s desk.

The Organization for Competitive Markets and a handful of individual plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit over the withdrawal of the so-called GIPSA rules, saying Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue’s decision to pull the regulations was illegal.

Agriculture has had good things to say about the Trump administration’s regulatory reform efforts, but one sector of the industry has some mixed reviews thus far.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says his department is prepared to offer guidance on a new farm bill, which he says could include some changes to nutrition policy.

As companies develop sustainability initiatives in their marketing departments, Field to Market President Rod Snyder says they should make sure to involve producers in those decisions.

The Department of Agriculture is working to implement the landmark biotech disclosure law passed in 2016, and a lobbyist who has followed the issue from the beginning says there are still major issues to resolve.

Agriculture interests have been trying everything from Hill visits to Twitter hashtags to make their concerns about the administration’s trade policies known. Two Washington insiders say those efforts may be making a difference.