Policy Update

Nominee close for still-vacant role of USDA Undersecretary for Trade & Foreign Ag Affairs
Natural gas unnaturally high and rising | World Bank: ‘Exceptional uncertainty’ | IMF forecasts
Mortgage payments as percentage of income in U.S. highest since 2008
Russia warns U.S. to stop sending weapons to Ukraine or risk ‘unpredictable consequences’
Financial officials next week to discuss food shortages and price increases brought on by war
Pork producers give reasons why they are not expanding operations
White House blaming Putin for inflation it believes will be ‘extraordinarily elevated’
Some lawmakers push special counsel at USDA re: meat industry competition | Biden to Iowa
New U.S. gun regulations coming | Vilsack tested Covid-positive
EPA again upsets biofuel proponents as they give 31 refiners end-around RINs