Alberta's wintry spring snowstorms have made calving season difficult for
Cross Cattle Company. Protecting newborn calves and managing the land are
important for the ranchers.
BView From the Range
Iowa will become the hub for a new USDA food safety center while members
of the department's economic team will also move more jobs to Missouri
locations. The moves will likely lead some more experienced staff and
leadership at USDA agencies to find employment elsewhere but also create
hundreds of job opportunities for younger people leaving college who want to
live in the Midwest or other locations in USDA's reorganization announcements.
7^USDA Details Agency Moves Out of DC
USDA signed a $300 million deal with Palantir Technologies to modernize
farm services, streamline paperwork and implement its "One Farmer, One File"
initiative.
BUSDA Signs $300M Deal With Palantir
DTN Contributing Analyst Philip Shaw says last year the United States grew
17.02 billion bushels of corn, with a yield forecast 186.5 bushels per acre.
USDA in its latest WASDE report said U.S. farmers plan to plant 3% less corn
from a year ago.
=^Under the Agridome
The chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee agreed
with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins that USDA's Commodity Credit Corp.
borrowing limit should be increased from the current $30 billion annually.
FAg Secretary Testifies on USDA Budget
