Agribusiness Update for Friday 4/05/13

Agribusiness Update for Friday 4/05/13

This is the Agribusiness Update...I’m Greg Martin...

Warm, dry spring weather has been a boon to wheat farmers in the Pacific Northwest allowing them to get into fields a bit earlier than usual. Some farmers have been planting already this year in hopes that May and June rains will kick the crop off.

A bipartisan group of Senators working on immigration legislation hope to unveil a bill next week. From there - the timeline for moving to a vote has not been decided. Florida Senator Marco Rubio is demanding full and careful consideration of any immigration measure. A spokesperson for Rubio says he wants public hearings, a committee markup and an amendment process on the floor.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service have announced recent results of efforts to support exports of U.S. agricultural products. APHIS is announcing the opening of export markets to Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia for U.S. day-old chicks and hatching eggs. USDA expects this will help increase exports of U.S. cattle, poultry products and pears by over 85-million dollars a year.

That’s today’s Agribusiness Update from the Ag Information Network. 

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