Agri-Pulse DriveTime

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition led a rally today calling on Congress to address climate change in the upcoming farm bill, and an Iowa lawmaker discusses the current action taken on Mexico’s ban on genetically modified corn imports.

The week begins with several big Biden administration announcements certain to impact future ag and food policy discussions. Hear more in today's DriveTime.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s measure of global food commodity prices was down 0.6% percent in February and a Minnesota Republican is calling on the Biden administration to allow summer sales of E15 this year. All that and more in today’s DriveTime.

A new executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme has been named and a public comment period is coming up on a deadline for FDA’s draft guidance for lead in baby foods. All that and more in today’s DriveTime.

The Environmental Protection Agency had some good news and some bad news for the biofuels industry today. Hear the latest in today's DriveTime.

USDA's Equity Commission returned a list of interim recommendations today, and department leaders want the work to have implications outside the government's walls. Hear how in today's DriveTime.

The Labor Department takes a look at farmworker wages and lawmakers want to hear from USDA on foreign farmland ownership. Hear more in today's DriveTime.

The fate of a deal to facilitate Black Sea grain exports gets a big boost from a major global player and U.S. and EU officials discuss agriculture. Hear more in today's DriveTime.

USDA's Ag Outlook Forum kicked off Thursday, and the latest projections for the farm economy show solid — but lower — income figures. Hear the latest on that and the U.S.-Mexico GMO corn dispute in today's DriveTime.

The Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance rolled out a batch of recommendations for the next farm bill provisions today. A look at FACA’s priorities and thoughts from a livestock industry economist on the current cattle cycle in today's DriveTime.