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With whispers of a new disease affecting cattle, the experts are stepping up to set the record straight.

Every legislative session, there are bills and proposals in Olympia that don't appear at the onset to impact the farming community.  However, these pieces of legislation can have unintended consequences that have a big impact on ag operations, regardless of the size.  One of ...

The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports has reached a deal to suspend a three-day strike until January 15th to provide time to negotiate a new contract.  The union, the International Longshoremen’s Association, is to resume working immediately.  The union and...

A potential strike at three dozen U.S. ports could upend supply chains and raise prices weeks before election day.  According to Farm Policy News, the International Longshoremen’s Association will have 25,000 members walk off the job if the union doesn’t come to a new agreement with the U.S. Maritime Alliance,...

A federal judge blocked the U.S. Labor Department from enforcing a rule in 17 states that would prevent agricultural employers from retaliating against migrant workers with H-2A visas for joining labor unions.  Employers also couldn’t retaliate for workers organizing against wage theft, trafficking, and other abuses.   Courth...

Just 16 hours after Canada’s two primary railway freight lines locked out Teamster Union employees on Thursday, Federal Labor Minister Steve MacKinnon stepped in to order binding arbitration on the parties involved.  For some weeks ahead of the deadline, management at both railways had been asking for binding arbitration, while the union had rejected government interference.   MacKin...

A threatened strike and lockout at Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway could cripple shipments of food grains, beans, potash, coal, and timber from Canada and farm and energy imports from the U.S.   “Corn, barley, oats, things like that, a lot of those products move on rail into Canada," noted American Farm Bureau economist Danny Munch.  "So, jus...

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack said he is grateful for Congress taking swift action to prevent a crippling national rail shutdown.   “A rail strike would have had significant and long-lasting effects on the American economy,” Vilsack said. “U.S. farmers a...

The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters rejected a tentative labor contract brokered between rail carriers and workers’ union reps.  The third-largest rail workers union in the country was the first union to say no to a deal brokered in part by the Biden administration. The union...