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Bob Bragg

New York

PM News Director at Bloomberg Radio

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  • 1 week ago | ksjd.org | Bob Bragg

    This is Bob Bragg with the Farm News & Views report for the week of May 26th. The Memorial Day holiday is set aside to recognize the sacrifices that military veterans have made to our Nation, so the following statistics from the 2022 USDA Agriculture’s Census are timely. It indicates that out of 3.4 million agricultural producers in the U.S., approximately 11% of them have served or are currently serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.

  • 2 weeks ago | ksjd.org | Bob Bragg

    While there was a lot of bombast about a recent trade agreement with the United Kingdom, it appears that there are more than a few loose ends. For example, the UK is standing firm that they’ll not accept hormone treated beef.

  • 3 weeks ago | ksjd.org | Bob Bragg

    On the 11th of this month, the USDA announced that it was suspending imports of live cattle, horses and bison through the southern U.S. border, because New World screwworm flies have been found in Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico. This area is about 700 miles south of the U.S. border.

  • 1 month ago | ksjd.org | Bob Bragg

    In a recent USDA conference with congressional staff, the agency reported that more than 15,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture employees have taken one of the two Trump  administration’s financial incentive offers to leave the agency, which represents about 15% of the USDA’s total workforce. These numbers could rise in the near future, because employees over 40 were given more time to decide whether to leave.

  • 1 month ago | ksjd.org | Bob Bragg

    The impacts that tariffs will have on the U.S. ag economy continues to concern both larger and small farmers and ranchers. Last week, California filed a lawsuit seeking to block Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs on foreign trading partners, accusing him of abusing his powers and inflicting financial harm on both the state and nation.

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