The U.S. House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management and Credit held a hearing on Tuesday, April 26, entitled “Producer Perspectives on the 2023 Farm Bill.” Representing the U.S. Peanut Federation was Daniel McMillan of Southern Grace...
Farm Bill Hearing For Senate Ag
The Senate Agriculture Committee held its first Farm Bill hearing in the new Congress on Feb. 1, 2023, with newly sworn in USDA Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, Alexis Taylor, a...
⋅ BY MARY HIGHTOWER ⋅
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
Farmers urged Congress strengthen price and revenue support programs, take a new look at crop insurance and streamline the way for migrant labor during a Farm Bill listening session...
New Ag Committee Leader
Incoming House Agriculture Chairman G.T. Thompson (R-Pa) laid out some of his top policy priorities for the Farm Bill recently. His top priority is to get the nearly half-trillion-dollar legislation out on time and avoid extending...
How much money will be available for agriculture programs is the big question?
Changes in the new Farm Bill will mostly be about money. That was the message from Joe Outlaw, co-director of the Agricultural and Food Policy Center in...
2022 U.S. Peanut Crop
Peanut production is forecast at 5.85 million pounds or 2.9 million tons in 2022, down 6% from the previous estimate and down 8% from 2021. USDA made this prediction in September.
Planted area at 1.46 million acres...
Farmers of all crops, including peanuts, are being blasted with uncontrollable problems as planting season gets underway.
The world was turned upside down with the pandemic two years ago, and it seems life will never get back to normal. COVID-19...
Farm Bill Hearings Begin
The U.S. House Agriculture Committee kicked off discussions over the most basic topics of the upcoming Farm Bill. Producers are facing higher costs for fuel, seed, fertilizer and other inputs amid supply chain backlogs and inflation.
Representatives...
Stress in agriculture has never been greater. Two major hurricanes, Irma and Michael, quality problems and now germination issues, low commodity prices, COVID-19 pandemic, riots and unrest in cities, talk of food shortages, a devastating court ruling on a...
The U.S. market is in a “wait and see” mode. The Southeast, where 70% of peanuts are grown, is experiencing hot and dry conditions, one of the longest such periods in history.
Early planted peanuts were considered good, especially those...
Farm Bill Called ‘A Miracle’
At the National Peanut Buying Points Association Annual Convention, U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee Chairman, Collin Peterson (D-Mn) said, “It was a miracle with all the problems we had to face that we got...
The entire peanut industry is in a holding pattern. Neither buyers, nor shellers or even farmers can make an informed decision about what to do in 2019 crop year. Buyers for both domestic and export are only buying hand-to-mouth...
2018 Farm Bill Becomes Law
President Donald Trump signed a $428 billion Farm Bill into law Dec. 20. It is entitled, “The Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018.” At the signing ceremony in Washington, D.C., he pledged “through fires, floods...
Although most of the peanut field provisions in the 2018 Farm Bill are the same, there is a change for producers of one state.
U.S. Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) introduced the South Carolina Peanut Parity Act,...
Farm Bill Provides Stability
The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 passed out of the U.S. Senate by a vote of 87 to 13 and the U.S. House of Representatives with a vote of 369 to 47. At press time, the...
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