Exports
From a $32 billion projected trade deficit to a drafted Farm Bill working in a deficit, here are the headlines most important to Rural Americans in June 2024.
California’s Air Resource Board approved the move to ban diesel-powered locomotives more than 23 years old beginning in 2030.
New numbers from USDA’s Research Arm found that every $1 of U.S. ag exports generated more than double that in domestic economic activity in 2022.
Cattle producers recently promoted U.S. beef on a trip to Japan and Korea with the U.S. Meat Export Federation.
Maritime trade resumes in Baltimore, as rail labor halts in Canada; farmer sentiment drops; plus, new studies and aid in the wake of HPAI H5N1 cases in dairy cattle.
Freight costs are increasing out of one of Brazil’s major southern ports due to the “biblical flooding”, obscuring rail and road passages to and from Rio Grande Do Sul.
New testing requirements for dairy cattle producers facing HPAI; ranchers fire back on a controversial proposal from the Bureau of Land Management; and our latest feel-good stories about some country music legends.
Wilmar International terminal was the primary route for Ukrainian grain exports to Africa and Asia during the ongoing conflict with Russia.
Another round of HPAI cases in poultry and dairy cattle plague Michigan producers, updates on the Kansas wildfires, and other top rural news stories from last week.