Federal Assistance for Ag Borrowers and U.S. Pumpkin Production - AG INFORMATION NETWORK OF THE WEST - AGInfo Ag Information Network

From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update.

**Federal officials person created a programme to supply $3.1 cardinal successful assistance for astir 36,000 distressed cultivation borrowers.

The effort, announced past week by Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, is intended to assistance farmers and livestock producers down connected indebtedness payments oregon successful fiscal jeopardy.

That includes galore impacted by drought, supply-chain backlogs oregon continued effects of the pandemic.

The assistance volition screen loans administered by the USDA’s Farm Service Agency.

**R-CALF USA is making a propulsion for Congress to see mandatory country-of-origin labeling of beef.

R-CALF is encouraging its members to amusement their enactment for the American Beef Labeling Act.

The authorities would necessitate the U.S. Trade Representative, with the Secretary of Agriculture, to make a World Trade Organization-compliant means of reinstating MCOOL for beef wrong 1 twelvemonth of enactment.

USTR would person six months to make a reinstatement plan, followed by a six-month implementation window.

**With Halloween conscionable past, pumpkins were a communal show crossed the United States.

The accumulation of pumpkins, from classical orangish Howdens to caller varieties similar Cinderella, is wide dispersed, with each states producing immoderate pumpkins.

However, USDA’s Economic Research Service reports astir 40% of pumpkin acres are successful conscionable six states.

Illinois is consistently the nation's largest pumpkin

producer, followed by Indiana, California, Texas, Michigan, and Virginia.