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26 Feb 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Agricultural trade barriers were frequent areas of discussion with senators asking Katherine Tia on Thursday how the Biden administration would expand trade markets if Tai is confirmed as U.S. trade ambassador. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, in his first day on the job, also told reporters the current high sales to China have ben...
26 Feb 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA needs to ensure its coronavirus aid to farmers is equitable as the Biden administration is using the department in several ways to focus on President Joe Biden's goal to contain the coronavirus, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Thursday. With that, USDA will extend enrollment for the latest round of the Coronavirus Food As...
25 Feb 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- As Tom Vilsack was sworn in Wednesday afternoon as Agriculture secretary, he already faces a request from his home-state congressional delegation asking to expand COVID-19 relief aid to include custom cattle feeders. He will also face some calls to unfreeze some aid to producers and also to push for states to vaccinate various worker...
25 Feb 2021
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- A coalition of 35 agriculture groups is urging Congress to work with the Small Business Administration (SBA) to ensure farm partnerships and limited liability corporations have the same access to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) that's granted to sole proprietors. The letter -- which was signed by all major commodity...
25 Feb 2021
Playing the role of fortune-teller, Syngenta's head of global seeds research might foresee an exciting future for crop varieties and traits thanks to big advances in plant breeding. "Looking into the future, transgenic technology will be accelerated by the new innovation that is happening in biotech areas, such as genome editing," Gusui Wu said. "W...