The long-term CR is likely to be based on the budget resolution, and the cuts to mandatory spending are likely to be in any such legislation that appears in December, creating the same battle as last year (only on slightly different parliamentary turf) that led to a government shutdown.
Here’s an update on fiscal policy, which will be the primary issue in Congress over the last few months of the current session. First, Congress passed a clean continuing resolution (CR) last week; clean means that it was strictly limited to funding the government without making any policy changes, budgetary or otherwise. That avoided a government shutdown on the first day of the new fiscal year, 1 October. Recall that one occurred last year due to a...
What You Need to Know Today: A third U.S. border crossing (Columbus, New Mexico) has reopened to Mexican cattle imports following nearly two years of restrictions related to New World screwworm. The reopening could gradually improve feeder cattle availability, although more than 60 confi...
Yesterday, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released a new report of negotiated cash purchases of cattle under the mandatory price report. The report included Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The goal of the report was to solve the confidentiality issues e...
Key Takeaways: U.S. soybean crushing began in 1911 and saw its most rapid expansion during the 1930s amid the broader agricultural and technology revolutions of the time. After peaking in the early 2000s, the soybean crushing industry went through a downturn as poor crush margins forced...
