USDA Announces Actions to Lower Food Prices, Bring Fairness to Farmers, and Promote More Competitive Food Supply Chains

USDA is issuing an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) to seek comment on several possible interventions to develop new benchmarks as AMA base prices and approaches to trading when using benchmarks. 

USDA Invests More Than $11 Million to Support Resiliency in U.S. Dairy Industry

The initiatives support small and mid-sized dairy businesses in the development, production, marketing, and distribution of dairy products.

National Fisheries Institute’s Robert DeHaan Reappointed to Government Trade Advisory Committee  

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announce the reappointment of Robert DeHaan to USDA’s Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee that covers trade in animal products. DeHaan is the Chief Counsel and Executive Vice President at the National Fisheries Institute. 

Biden-Harris Administration Invests $110 Million in Meat and Poultry Processing to Strengthen Food Supply Chain, Increase Competition, and Lower Food Costs

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the Biden-Harris Administration is making investments that will strengthen American food supply chains, increase independent meat and poultry processing capacity, create more, new and better markets for producers, and lower food costs.

Statement by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on USMCA Dairy Panel Ruling

January 7, 2022 USDA,

“The U.S. Trade Representative announced that the United States has prevailed in the first dispute settlement panel proceeding under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The panel agreed with the United States that Canada is unfairly restricting access to its market for U.S. dairy products by breaching its USMCA commitments regarding allocation of dairy tariff rate quotas (TRQs).”