This is the day the federal government runs out of money. Yesterday the House passed a stopgap spending bill, which includes expanded funding for farm loans, and now the Senate has until midnight to avert a shutdown.The U.S. House of Representatives passed a FY 2017 continuing resolution (CR) yesterday by a vote of 326 to 96. Republicans supported the measure 208 to 33 with Democrats voting 118 in favor versus 63 against. The measure will fund the government for approximately four months until 29 April 2017. At that point, congressional leadership hopes to have a deal for the remainder of the fiscal year (through 30 September) completed along with the FY 2018 appropriations.The federal government runs out of money at midnight tonight, forci...
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...
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