While it was formed to block Republican leadership from compromising with President Obama on most issues, the conservative House Freedom Caucus is now switching to pursue a new agenda of cutting back regulations under the Trump administration.
The House Freedom Caucus is an informal group of around 40 (there is no set list of membership) of the most ardently conservative members of the House Republican majority. This is the group that unseated former House Speaker John Boehner in 2015, unhappy with his perceived willingness to compromise with President Obama on too many issues. Indeed, its opposition to most of the Obama agenda was the catalyst for its formation and the basis of its power, which proved to be large enough to prevent the R...
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...
