Policy Update

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
USDA grants big money to UNL for a study of meatpacking industry since Covid
FOMC minutes | Big fertilizer, seed, labor woes in China | FJ surveys chemical retailers
World’s largest container port hit by Covid surge in Shanghai
In letter to NGFA, Vilsack indicates less CRP re-enrollments in the latest general signup