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Thursday, May 25, 2023
USDA plans to send Emergency Relief Program and Emergency Livestock Relief Program pre-filled applications directly to eligible producers in early summer for those with qualifying disaster losses for the 2022 calendar year.
The Black Sea Grain Initiative, which allows Ukraine to export grain from three Odesa ports despite an ongoing war, was renewed on Saturday, but it’s still unclear for how long.
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service made its first purchases of diagnostic tests to test livestock for African swine fever (ASF) and foot and mouth disease (FMD). The purchases were made possible through funding in the 2018 farm bill establishing the National Animal Vaccine and Veterinary Countermeasures Bank.
Livestock producers are signing up for programs that had long been overlooked by the industry, leading to a beef producer group jotting down another line item on an already lengthy lobbying agenda.
The Biden administration's new “waters of the U.S.” rule came under immediate criticism from farm groups and their GOP allies in Congress, who said it could expand federal jurisdiction over agricultural lands.