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programs.
March 6: Cargill’s North America Commercial Director, Greg Shoemaker, profiled the company in a recent episode of the Farm+Food+Facts podcast from U.S. Farmers and Ranchers in
Action. Based in Minneapolis, Cargill has operations in 70 countries.
March 5: U.S. Department of Agriculture Chief Ag Negotiator Julie Callahan and Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Luke Lindberg shared information about a dual
strategy to improve ag exports. It includes reciprocal trade agreements and rapid response missions involving U.S. farmers visiting with trading partners in foreign countries.
March 4: David Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst at The Cook Political Report, made some observations about this year’s midterm elections as a guest on the Keep America
Growing podcast (Episode 26) from National Crop Insurance Services.
March 3: Two environmental/health groups--the Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Food Safety--are suing the federal Environmental Protection Agency over the EPA’s
approval of isocycloseram, an insecticide used on some crops and green spaces. The suit alleges that former lobbyists now working for the EPA were behind the approval. Isocycloseram
is in a class known as “forever chemicals” and the EPA itself has found in animal studies to have harmful effects.
March 2: 2025 was a pretty good year overall for U.S. meat exports, according to Dan Halstrom, president and CEO of the U.S. Meat Export Federation. You can listen to Halstrom’s
comments here.
February 27: The Pat Garrett Sheepskin Outlet is located just off (Exit 19) I-78 about halfway between Harrisburg and Allentown in southeast Pennsylvania. Garrett--who is also a country
music performer and recording artist--has thousands of sheepskin garments and other items at prices he says are considerably less than competitors.
February 25-26: Stephen Vaden, Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was featured in a recent webinar put on by the National Ag Law Center at the University of
Arkansas. You can view a recording here.
February 24: Like many segments of production agriculture, the dairy business is feeling an economic pinch. Will Loux, VP for Economic Policy at the National Milk Producers Federation
believes the situation may improve later in the year. Loux and NMPF’s VP for Economic Policy, Stephen Cain, appeared in a recent episode of the Dairy Defined Podcast.
February 23: Signup is underway through March 20 for the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Stop by your local FSA office to do the
paperwork.
