tax reform

The USDA is making $92.2 million in competitive grant funding available under the 2018 Farm Bill’s Local Agriculture Market Program, or LAMP.

Farmers facing fewer choices for profitability, many are standing firm in their support of the President. Trump has supported farmers with tax reform and a farm bill,

USDA breakthroughs in ag trade, moved to reduce burdensome regulations. Employment in inpatient healthcare facilities and in the ag sectors grew modestly.

Tax reform getting mixed reviews. China announced they would require ethanol blends in ALL fuel by 2020.

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has passed and its effect will lessens the impact self-employment and income taxes have on producers from its original version. Arkansas and Monsanto facing off on the Dicamba ban. China removing value added tax on distillers dried grains.

Beef sales is up. Tax reform could see changes in estate tax and other tax overhaul.

**The House Appropriations Committee’s agriculture and energy subcommittees approved bills that reject most of the cuts sought by President Trump. The bill approved by the panel’s ag subcommittee would still cut discretionary spending at USDA, the Food and Drug Administration and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission by $876 million from fiscal 2017 levels...

**A court ruling significantly expands the number of concentrated animal feeding operations that will have to report air emissions from animal waste. On Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals found illegal a 2008 rule exempting all but the largest CAFOs from reporting releases of hazardous substances, like ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, above certain levels...

The leader of America’s biggest farm group says U.S. agriculture is experiencing something of a Charles Dickens moment, benefiting from what he called the “the best times” while dealing with the “worst” of times. American Farm Bureau Federation’s Zippy Duvall says the new Trump administration and the 115th Congress are contributing to the best of times with their appetite for regulatory and tax re