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17 Dec 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA has imposed a $50,000 civil penalty against JBS USA Food Co., also known as Swift Beef Co., and required restitution to producers after JBS' plant in Grand Island, Nebraska, did not accurately track weights, grades and prices for cattle carcasses on accounts to sellers earlier this year. The...
17 Dec 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Lead Analyst After many years spent working in and teaching about commodity markets, I don't ever recall equating my job to the way a country minister might talk to his congregation. Not until recently, that is, after an interesting experience at this year's DTN Ag Summit. The first time I ever read a commodity-related article th...
17 Dec 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA has imposed a $50,000 civil penalty against JBS USA Food Co., also known as Swift Beef Co., and required restitution to producers after JBS' plant in Grand Island, Nebraska, did not accurately track weights, grades and prices for cattle carcasses on accounts to sellers earlier this year. The...
14 Dec 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The 2018 farm bill that had divided the House last summer over food-aid issues ended up passing easily on Wednesday as Congress sent the legislation on to President Donald Trump for his signature. The bill, the Agricultural Act of 2018, passed 369 to 47 on Wednesday afternoon with 182 Republicans ...
14 Dec 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Leaders at USDA are taking their case to President Donald Trump to approve the second round of trade-aid payments to farmers after spending recent weeks "arm wrestling" with staff at the White House Office of Management and Budget over the Market Facilitation Program and its costs, USDA's s...