For historical reasons, delineating federalism - the role and powers of states versus the national government in the U.S. - can be confusing, and there are several current examples. Policy versus Mother Nature The Financial Times reports that North Korea has halved the amount of rations available to citizens to less than 1,000 calories per day. Following years of starvation-level agricultural production, Pyongyang initiated market reforms that were substantive and credible. This included allowing:
small groups of families to produce crops for their own use expansion of so-called kitchen gardens from 100 to 3,300 square meters use of the same land for years retention of up to 70 percent of what they produce with just 30 percent given...
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...
