Archive for the "Government Shutdown" Tag

Congressional negotiators announced an “agreement in principle” Monday night on a broad spending bill they hope will satisfy President Donald Trump’s demands […]

Corn and soybean prices rallied Friday as news broke that the partial federal government shutdown would end with a three-week short-term funding […]

The House passed Jan. 16 the Disaster Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 268) by a vote of 237 to 187, and the bill […]

Editor’s Note: At the time of this writing, the partial federal government shutdown was in its 24th day with no clear end […]

(Washington, D.C., January 16, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that many Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices will […]

Shutdown Background Last week, Bloomberg writers Erik Wasson and Laurence Arnold explained that, “The U.S. government runs on 12 appropriations bills passed each year by Congress and […]

Ten Republicans joined House Democrats on Thursday to pass a fiscal year 2019 Agriculture appropriations bill. The legislation is not supported by […]

As the president and congressional Democrats keep fighting over border wall funding, farmers are feeling the impacts of the partial federal government […]

Farmers who had waited to enroll in the Market Facilitation Program will get a deadline extension once USDA Farm Service Agency offices […]

USDA will have to delay its bevy of crop reports initially slated for release Jan. 11 as the partial government shutdown moves […]