agribusiness

Undersecretary for Trade and Ag Affairs, Alexis Taylor will lead an agribusiness trade mission to India in April and USDA is reminding interested parties that applications are open for exporters who want to take part.

The USDA’s National Ag Statistics Service will begin mailing the 2023 Census of Aquaculture forms starting December 18.

On a visit, the Danish government learned of U.S. red meat production and how agribusiness is conducted here. Soybean price volatility due to Chinese tariffs.

**Ag education is changing to keep up with recent advancements. National FFA Association CEO Mark Poeschl tells Brownfield they are working with ag educators as agriculture and technology evolves. He says that means exposing FFA members to more science and technology uses in agribusiness to get them interested in a possible ag-related career...

**As Congress meets to consider budget proposals and annual spending bills, a group of 59 farm, environmental, credit and young farmers organizations circulated letters Tuesday, urging them to “protect crop insurance and recognize its central importance to farmers, lenders and all of rural America...

When we think of farming jobs we tend to think of the big red barn and coveralls but the ag industry has a very diverse job market that can include high tech industries and laboratories as well. The need to feed an ever growing population on less farmland will put a big stress on the research end of agriculture and college students will find a growing number of jobs in those areas...

The House Judiciary Committee has advanced mandatory E-Verify legislation by a vote of 20 to 13. This legislation would force employers to use E-Verify to ensure workers can legally work in the U.S. Democrats argued this legislation would devastate ag employers - but Judiciary Committee Chair Robert Goodlatte says the committee will consider a separate agricultural guest worker bill as soon as pos