supply chain

Originally posted in the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Market Intel Report Inflation is usually caused when too much money is put into circulation by a central bank (like our Federal…

Supply chain disruptions and material shortages are fueling speculation about a herbicide shortage for the 2022 agriculture growing season. Allan Gray, executive director of the Purdue University Center for Food…

The U.S. economy is on a strong growth path and cash-rich consumers are spending robustly on both services and goods. Roughly 80% of the U.S. adult population has now received…

USDA is directing billions of dollars to prevent the spread of African swine fever and bolster disaster programs in response to drought hurting cattle producers and farmers facing market disruptions.…

In the second quarter of 2021, money that had been diverted by COVID-19 from travel and other activities into the small tractor market began to return to normal use. Sustained…

USDA today announced plans to invest more than $4 billion to strengthen critical supply chains, including animal production and meat processing, through the Biden Administration’s Build Back Better initiative. The…

WASHINGTON, — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking comments on a Department-wide effort to improve and reimagine the supply chains for the…

The CME Group has begun publishing a new Boxed Beef Index. The new pricing tool is designed to provide the beef industry with better price discovery by focusing on the…

By Dale R. Woerner, associate professor in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Texas Tech University. The impact of COVID-19 on the livestock and meat industry is…

By Cynthia Lummis, former Wyoming Congresswoman and current U.S. Senate candidate These past few weeks friends have sent along heartbreaking videos of dairy farmers dumping out truckloads of milk while…