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Mexico Lifts Biotech Corn Ban on US

6 Feb 2025
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The Mexican government on Thursday repealed its ban on genetically modified corn imports from the U.S. after losing an arbitration ruling under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, in December 2024. Mexico declared "ineffective" two sets of measures that the U.S. Trade Representative successfully challenged in the USMC...

USDA: Farm Incomes Up in 2025

6 Feb 2025
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- USDA forecasts climbing farm income in 2025, but it's due to a dramatic increase in government payments, not better prices or a higher volume of sales. Net farm income, which is a comprehensive measure of farm profitability, is forecast at $180.1 billion, an increase of $41 billion, or 29.5%, from 2024. Net cash farm inco...

Meat Labeling Effort Returns

6 Feb 2025
SAN ANTONIO (DTN) -- Country-of-origin labeling, a subject that has divided the cattle world more than anything this side of a Ford-Chevy-RAM debate, could be back in play during the current Congressional session. The American Beef Labeling Act, which would reinstate mandatory country-of-origin labeling (MCOOL) for beef, was introduced Feb. 5 by Se...

Ag Groups, JBS Reach $83.5M Settlement

6 Feb 2025
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- National farm groups have asked a federal court to approve a proposed $83.5 million class action settlement with JBS, in a lawsuit that alleges the companies conspired to "fix, depress, suppress or stabilize" the price of live cattle futures and options traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange from 2015 to 2020. National Far...

Farmers Urge Congress to Pass Farm Bill

5 Feb 2025
OMAHA (DTN) -- Jennifer James was the last of 11 farmers to testify Wednesday before a marathon session of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee. Her testimony was the hardest to hear. Farmers representing corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, rice, sorghum, peanuts, sugar beets and barley all talked about the per-acre financial losses their fellow produc...
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