Tag: US Agriculture Department

• Thursday, August 22nd 2019 - 09:13 UTC

  Farmers furious with USDA estimates and frustrated about unsold crops caused by Trump's trade war

  

  The U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday it had pulled all staff from an annual crop tour after an employee was threatened, and sources said the threat of violence was made during a phone call from an angry farmer.

• Monday, January 7th 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Brazil's 2018/19 soy crop estimated at 122m tons and Argentina's, 56.5m tons

  

  Estimates of corn and soybean production in Brazil and Argentina remain unchanged from private analytics IEG vantage last monthly report. The firm projected Brazil’s 2018/19 soybean crop at 122 million tons and Argentina’s crop at 56.5 million tons.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 07:31 UTC

  Obama announces 170m dollars emergency support for scorched farms

  

  President Barack Obama announced an emergency purchase of up to 170 million dollars of meat and fish on Monday on a campaign trip to drought-hit Iowa, and accused Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan of blocking disaster aid to farmers.

• Friday, January 13th 2012 - 22:37 UTC

  Brazil's orange juice threatened by the discovery of the fungicide carbendazim

  

  Orange-juice futures rebounded from the biggest two-day slump since 2008 on renewed concern that a US government probe of imports from Brazil will tighten supplies. The Food and Drug Administration said it will detain all imports that contain carbendazim, a fungicide that isn’t approved for oranges in the US.

• Friday, May 13th 2011 - 00:54 UTC

  US farmers lobby strongly for FTA, which could generate 22.500 jobs

  

  The inability of the United States Congress and the administration to move three stalled free trade agreements is hurting US economic growth, testified American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman before the House Agriculture Committee.