![Specialty Crop Farmers Facing Worker Shortage Want More Federal Investment]()
by Eric Englert | Jul 13, 2017 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Specialty crop farmers need the U.S. Department of Agriculture to spend $10 million to $20 million a year on each major crop to offset labor shortages, rising costs and cutbacks in subsidies in past years, farm industry leaders said Wednesday....
by Katherine Hyunjung Lee | Jul 12, 2017 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – A trade agreement reached between Japan and the European Union has many U.S. meat producers concerned about future exports. The agreement, reached last week, calls for Europe to lower tariffs on Japanese automobiles in return for Japan lowering...
by Haley Velasco | Jul 11, 2017 | Business & Tech
Net neutrality has a big day coming on July 12, when an Internet-Wide Day of Action will highlight how the web would look if telecom companies were allowed to control it for profit. Organizing groups such as Fight for the Future, Free Press Action Fund, and Demand...
by Eric Englert | Jul 7, 2017 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security will take the lead in fighting agro-terrorism and ensuring a safe food supply by providing a better-coordinated response between agencies in the event of an outbreak, officials say. Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts authored the...
![Federal Reserve Governor: Housing finance needs fundamental reform]()
by Beixi Xu & Yemeng Yang | Jul 6, 2017 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – With a major housing finance reform bill pending in Congress, Jerome H. Powell, one of four sitting governors on the Federal Reserve Board, said Thursday that the nation is overdue for substantial changes in the mortgage market. Powell, a former...
![USDA Warns that Bee Numbers are in Decline, Pushes for Better Monitoring]()
by Eric Englert | Jul 5, 2017 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON—Native bees contribute an estimated $3.5 billion to the U.S. economy each year, but their dwindling numbers must be addressed to avoid the possible extinction of some species, Department of Agriculture officials said Wednesday. Among all native, or...
