The annual USA Rice Outlook Conference may last only a few days every December, but for us, it’s a year-round job. While the exhibitors are packing up their booths and the attendees are heading home to prepare for the holidays, we’re crouching at the starting gate for the next Outlook. We hit the ground running every January, integrating the lessons ... Read More »
Tag Archives: farm policy
FSA plans to reopen offices, add services during shutdown
All Farm Service Agency offices nationwide will reopen shortly to provide additional administrative services to farmers and ranchers during the government shutdown. The announcement by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Purdue came after select FSA offices provided limited hours of service Jan. 17, 18 and 22. Those offices as well as others nationwide will be open beginning Jan. 24, but not ... Read More »
The Farm Bill gets in under the wire
After more than two years of work, discussing and debating policies and ironing out the kinks, the 2018 Farm Bill has finally been passed and signed into law, and it’s due largely in part to the perseverance and hard work of USA Rice members. You told us what you needed from the Farm Bill, and we took it to Capitol ... Read More »
A-State’s annual ag business conference focuses on economics, farm policy
Arkansas State University’s annual Agribusiness Conference will celebrate 25 years of providing timely information and agricultural policy education to farmers, agribusiness professionals, students and educators across the Mid-South. The 2019 conference on Feb. 13 will focus on Read More »