As 2025 begins, organic stakeholders are preparing for changes in the political and funding landscape for organic agriculture. New leadership will be appointed at the USDA, though that appointment is forthcoming with no advertised timeline.
The Secretary of Agriculture under the previous Trump administration was nominated in mid-January 2017, the last cabinet position to be filled. Secretary Sonny Perdue presided over the USDA as a trade war raged with a key buyer of US farm products: China.
Perdue infamously quipped that big farms get bigger, and the small are likely to fail. While this tracks with economic reality, agricultural programs are powerful tools that shape the agricultural economy in profound ways.
Hearing the top official presiding over these programs announce that there was little hope for small farms angered farmers and farm groups, eliciting calls for resignation and rebuke from within…
01.06.2025
SkyNRG Washington SAF plant to receive $1.5 million planning grant
The $1.5 million grant is intended for use in engineering, permitting and logistics studies towards the planning of the facility, which will produce 50 million gallons of SAF per...
01.06.2025
Animal fat prices in Gulf show upward pressure; weekly hog slaughter increases
The US animal fats and oils markets began the week of Monday January 6 on a relatively active note as trading gradually picks up following the holiday season.
01.06.2025
Potential January ILA port strike weighs on market sentiment
US animal proteins prices were steady day on day on Monday January 6 amid an impending port strike.
A January 15 deadline is set for the International Longshoremen’s...